Editing Outline of software engineering (section)

===Pioneers===<!-- This section is linked from [[Software engineering]] -->
Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications.
*[[John Backus]]: [[Fortran]], first optimizing compiler, [[Backus-Naur form|BNF]]
*[[Victor Basili]]: Experience factory.
*[[F.L. Bauer]]: [[Stack (data structure)|Stack]] principle, popularized the term ''Software Engineering''
*[[Kent Beck]]: [[Refactoring]], [[extreme programming]], [[pair programming]], [[test-driven development]].
*[[Tim Berners-Lee]]: [[World Wide Web]]
*[[Barry Boehm]]: [[Software engineering economics|SE economics]], [[COCOMO]], [[Spiral model]].
*[[Grady Booch]]: [[Object-oriented]] [[design]], [[UML]].
*[[Fred Brooks]]: Managed [[System 360]] and [[OS 360]]. Wrote ''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]'' and ''[[No Silver Bullet]]''.
*[[Larry Constantine]]: [[Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method|Structured design]], [[Coupling (computer science)|coupling]], [[Cohesion (computer science)|cohesion]]
*[[Edsger Dijkstra]]: Wrote ''[[Notes on Structured Programming]]'', ''[[A Discipline of Programming]]'' and ''[[Go To Statement Considered Harmful]]'', [[algorithms]], [[formal methods]], [[pedagogy]].
*[[Fagan inspection|Michael Fagan]]: [[Software inspection]].
*[[Tom Gilb]]: [[Software metrics]], [[Software inspection]], [[Software evolution|Evolutionary Delivery ("Evo")]].
*[[Adele Goldstine]]: Wrote the Operators Manual for the [[ENIAC]], the first electronic digital computer, and trained some of the first [[human computer]]s
*[[Lois Haibt]]: [[FORTRAN]], wrote the first [[parsing|parser]]
*[[Margaret Hamilton (scientist)|Margaret Hamilton]]: Coined the term "software engineering", developed [[Universal Systems Language]]
*[[Mary Jean Harrold]]: [[Regression testing]], fault localization
*[[Grace Hopper]]: The first compiler (Mark 1), [[COBOL]], [[Nanosecond]]s.
*[[Watts Humphrey]]: [[Capability Maturity Model]], [[Personal Software Process]], fellow of the [[Software Engineering Institute]].
*[[Jean Ichbiah]]: [[Ada programming language|Ada]]
*[[Michael A. Jackson (computer scientist)|Michael A. Jackson]]: [[Jackson Structured Programming]], [[Jackson System Development]]
*[[Bill Joy]]: Berkeley [[Unix]], [[Vi (text editor)|vi]], [[Java platform|Java]].
*[[Alan Kay]]: [[Smalltalk]]
*[[Brian Kernighan]]: C and Unix.
*[[Donald Knuth]]: Wrote ''[[The Art of Computer Programming]]'', [[TeX]], [[algorithm]]s, [[literate programming]]
*[[Nancy Leveson]]: System safety
*[[Bertrand Meyer]]: [[Design by Contract]], [[Eiffel programming language]].
*[[Peter G. Neumann]]: [[RISKS Digest]], ACM Sigsoft.
*[[David Parnas]]: Module design, social responsibility, professionalism.
*[[Jef Raskin]]: Developed the original [[Macintosh]] [[GUI]], authored [[The Humane Interface]]
*[[Dennis Ritchie]]: [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[Unix]].
*[[Winston W. Royce]]: [[Waterfall model]].
*[[Mary Shaw (computer scientist)|Mary Shaw]]: Software [[architecture]].
*[[Richard Stallman]]: Founder of the [[Free Software Foundation]]
*[[Linus Torvalds]]: [[Linux]] kernel, [[free software]] / [[open-source software|open source]] development.
*[[Will Tracz]]: Reuse, ACM Software Engineering Notes.
*[[Gerald Weinberg]]: Wrote ''[[The Psychology of Computer Programming]]''.
*[[Elaine Weyuker]]: Software testing
*[[Jeannette Wing]]: [[Formal specification]]s.
*[[Ed Yourdon]]: [[Structured programming]], wrote ''[[Decline and Fall of the American Programmer|The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer]]''.

See also
*[[List of programmers]]
*[[List of computer scientists]]