software engineering

Etymology
in service listings (in “systems software engineering”), partly popularized by American computer scientists and  later in the decade. In a 1966 letter to the members of the, listed by the  as the term’s first attestation, Oettinger wrote, “We must recognize ourselves as members of an engineering profession, be it hardware engineering or software engineering”.

Noun

 * 1) The subfield of engineering concerned with applying a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 軟件工程
 * Czech: softwarové inženýrství
 * Finnish: ohjelmistotuotanto
 * French:
 * German: Softwaretechnik
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hugbúnaðarverkfræði
 * Irish: innealtóireacht bogearraí
 * Italian: ingegneria del software
 * Japanese: ソフトウェア工学
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: endezyariya nivîsbariyê
 * Portuguese: engenharia de software
 * Romanian: inginerie software, ingineria programării
 * Thai: วิศวกรรมซอฟต์แวร์
 * Turkish: yazılım mühendisliği