Software Engineering Task

A Software Engineering Task is a software development task that is an engineering task within a software engineering process (results in engineered software systems).

• Context:
  • It can (typically) involve Software Engineers with software engineering education and software engineering skills.
  • It can (typically) apply Software engineering-based approaches intended to achieve software quality and software development productivity.
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  • It can (often) apply a Engineering Design Process to software engineering development.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Software Engineering Task to being a Complex Software Engineering Task, depending on its software engineering system scope.
  • It can range from being a Well-Specified Software Engineering Task to being a Ill-Specified Software Engineering Task, depending on ...
  • It can range from being a Core Software Engineering Task to being a Support Software Engineering Task, depending on its software engineering task focus.
  • It can range from being a Intelligence-Requiring Software Engineering Task to being a Rote Software Engineering Task, depending on its software engineering cognitive demand.
  • It can range from being an Individual Software Engineering Task to being a Collaborative Software Engineering Task, depending on its software engineering collaboration requirement.
  • It can range from being a Manual Software Engineering Task to being an Automated Software Engineering Task, depending on its software engineering automation level.
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  • It can be categorized by its software development lifecycle phase into software engineering planning tasks, software engineering analysis tasks, software engineering design tasks, software engineering implementation tasks, software engineering testing tasks, software engineering deployment tasks, and software engineering maintenance tasks.
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  • It can include Software Analysis for software requirements.
  • It can require Software Design for software system architecture.
  • It can involve Software Implementation (software programming, software debugging, ...).
  • It can perform Software Testing for software quality assurance.
  • It can support Software Maintenance over software system lifecycle.
  • It can use Software Configuration Management for software systematic control.
  • It can be subject of a Software Engineering Conference.
  • It can require specific Software Engineering Practices.
  • It can utilize Software Versioning for software modern processes.
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• Example(s):
  • Software Engineering Tasks by software development lifecycle phase, such as:
    • Software Requirements Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Requirements Elicitation Task for software requirement gathering.
      • Requirements Analysis Task for software requirement specification.
      • Requirements Validation Task for software requirement verification.
    • Software Design Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Architecture Design Task for software system structure.
      • Interface Design Task for software component interaction.
      • Database Design Task for software data structure.
    • Software Implementation Tasks, such as:
      • Code Development Task for software feature implementation.
      • Code Optimization Task for software performance enhancement.
      • Code Refactoring Task for software maintenance improvement.
    • Software Testing Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Unit Testing Task for software component validation.
      • Integration Testing Task for software system integration.
      • System Testing Task for complete software validation.
    • Software Deployment Tasks, such as:
      • Release Management Task for software version control.
      • Installation Configuration Task for software environment setup.
      • User Training Task for software adoption support.
    • Software Maintenance Tasks, such as:
      • Bug Fixing Task for software error correction.
      • Feature Enhancement Task for software capability extension.
      • Performance Tuning Task for software optimization.
  • Software Engineering Tasks by software engineering domain, such as:
    • Backend Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Data Engineering Tasks for software data management.
      • System Integration Tasks for software component connection.
      • API Development Tasks for software interface creation.
    • Frontend Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • UI Engineering Tasks for software user interface development.
      • Web Development Tasks for software web application creation.
      • Client-Side Tasks for software user interaction management.
    • DevOps Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Continuous Integration Tasks for software automated building.
      • Continuous Deployment Tasks for software automated delivery.
      • Infrastructure Management Tasks for software environment maintenance.
    • Security Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • Vulnerability Assessment Tasks for software security evaluation.
      • Security Implementation Tasks for software protection mechanism.
      • Security Monitoring Tasks for software threat detection.
    • AI Engineering Tasks, such as:
      • ML Engineering Tasks for software machine learning integration.
      • Neural Network Tasks for software deep learning implementation.
      • AI Integration Tasks for software intelligence augmentation.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Programmer Tasks, which may focus on implementation rather than applying the complete software engineering design process and software engineering education.
  • Electrical Engineering Tasks, which deal with hardware engineering rather than software engineering.
  • Theoretical Computer Science Tasks, which study computer science theory rather than software engineering practice.
  • Software Project Management Tasks, which focus on project coordination rather than software engineering technical implementation.
• See: Computer Programming, Systems Analysis, Applied Computer Science, Software Development Lifecycle, Software Engineering Process.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering Retrieved:2023-6-5.
  • Software engineering is an engineering-based approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the engineering design process to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term programmer is sometimes used as a synonym, but may also refer more to implementation rather than design and can also lack connotations of engineering education or skills.

    Engineering techniques are used to inform the software development process, which involves the definition, implementation, assessment, measurement, management, change, and improvement of the software life cycle process itself. It heavily uses software configuration management, which is about systematically controlling changes to the configuration, and maintaining the integrity and traceability of the configuration and code throughout the system life cycle. Modern processes use software versioning.

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/software_engineering Retrieved:2014-4-28.
  • Software Engineering is the study and application of engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software. ...

2014

• http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE381
  • … Software engineering is concerned with the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of large software systems. Automated software engineering focuses on how to automate or partially automate these tasks to achieve significant improvements in quality and productivity. ...

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