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Software development and engineering.
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Chapter 10 - Software development and engineering ENGINEERING DISCIPLINE • There are two features which are common to most engineering definitions • The solution of practical problems for the benefit of humankind • The use of scientific and other formalised knowledge to design and build artefacts within economic constraints Difference between scientists and engineers: • Scientific reasoning and research is essentially inductive, scientists try to infer general rules or laws from the results of a limited number of observations or experimental results • The activities of engineers are quite distinct, their objective is for human benefit rather than explaining the natural world. They make use of scientific results in a deductive way (to verify designs and ideas that are feasible and safe. Development of engineering disciplines QUESTION: How does engineering come to make use of scientific and formalised knowledge? ANSWER: The discipline starts in a state of craft practice: At this stage engineering is carried out by practitioners with little or no formal training and knowledge is...
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