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What is the difference between a software engineer and a programmer?
What is the difference between a software engineer and a programmer?
- Software engineer lacks engineering education or skills, while a programmer emphasizes design and implementation
- There is no difference, they are synonymous
- Programmer focuses on software design, while a software engineer focuses on implementation
- Software engineer emphasizes design and implementation, while a programmer may focus more on software implementation (correct)
What does a software engineer do?
What does a software engineer do?
- Only develop computer software
- Only design computer software
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and evaluate computer software (correct)
- Only test computer software
What is software configuration management primarily about?
What is software configuration management primarily about?
- Systematically controlling changes to the configuration, and maintaining the integrity and traceability of the configuration and code throughout the system life cycle (correct)
- Only about software versioning
- Only maintaining the integrity and traceability of the configuration and code
- Only controlling changes to the configuration
When did software engineering begin to be recognized as its own type of engineering?
When did software engineering begin to be recognized as its own type of engineering?
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What were some problems encountered during the early development of software engineering?
What were some problems encountered during the early development of software engineering?
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