Outline of software engineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software engineering:
Software engineering – application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is the application of engineering to software.
The ACM Computing Classification system is a poly-hierarchical ontology that organizes the topics of the field and can be used in semantic web applications and as a defacto standard classification system for the field. The major section "Software and its Engineering" provides an outline and ontology for software engineering.
Technologies and practices.
Skilled software engineers use technologies and practices from a variety of fields to improve their productivity in creating software and to improve the quality of the delivered product.
Software applications.
Software engineers build software (applications, operating systems, system software) that people use.
Applications influence software engineering by pressuring developers to solve problems in new ways. For example, consumer software emphasizes low cost, medical software emphasizes high quality, and Internet commerce software emphasizes rapid development.
Software engineering topics.
Many technologies and practices are (mostly) confined to software engineering,
though many of these are shared with computer science.
Platforms.
A platform combines computer hardware and an operating system. As platforms grow more powerful and less costly, applications and tools grow more widely available.
Computer science topics.
Skilled software engineers know a lot of computer science including what is possible and impossible, and what is easy and hard for software.
Mathematics topics.
Discrete mathematics is a key foundation of software engineering.
Other
Deliverables.
Deliverables must be developed for many SE projects. Software engineers rarely make all of these deliverables themselves. They usually cooperate with the writers, trainers, installers, marketers, technical support people, and others who make many of these deliverables.
History of software engineering.
History of software engineering
Pioneers.
Many people made important contributions to SE technologies, practices, or applications.
See also
Notable publications.
See also: