History of Software Engineering
History Of Software The term programming was commonly used through the mid-1960s, and referred essentially to the task of coding a computer. The term software engineering—referring to the highly disciplined, systematic approach to software development and maintenance—came into existence after a NATO-sponsored conference in 1968. At that conference, the difficulties and pitfalls of designing complex systems were explored in depth, and a search for solutions began that concentrated on better methodologies and tools. The most prominent of these tools were languages reflecting procedural, modular, and object-oriented styles of programming. Since 1968, the development of software engineering has been intimately tied to these tools’ emergence and improvement, as well as to efforts for systematizing or automating program documentation and testing. Ultimately, analytic verification and correctness proofs were supposed to replace testing, but that has not happened. The 1960s a...