Editing Outline of software engineering (section)

{{Short description|1=Overview of and topical guide to software engineering}}
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The following [[Outline (list)|outline]] is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software engineering:

'''[[Software engineering]]''' &ndash; application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of [[software]]; that is the application of [[engineering]] to [[software]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-first1= Pierre |editor-last1= Bourque |editor-first2=Robert |editor-last2=Dupuis |   title = Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - 2004 Version | publisher = [[IEEE Computer Society]] | year = 2004 | pages = 1 | isbn = 0-7695-2330-7 | url = http://www.swebok.org}}</ref>

The ACM Computing Classification system is a poly-hierarchical ontology that organizes the topics of the field and can be used in semantic web applications and as a de facto standard classification system for the field.   The major section "Software and its Engineering" provides an outline and ontology for software engineering.

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