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Software engineering has slowly become part of our everyday life. From washing machines to compact disc
players, through cash machines and phones, most of our daily activities use
software, and as time goes by, the more complex and costly this software
becomes.
The demand for sophisticated software greatly increases the constraints imposed on development
teams. Software engineers are facing a world of growing complexity due to the nature of
applications, the distributed and heterogeneous environments, the size of
programs, the organization of software development teams, and the
end-users' ergonomic expectations.
To surmount these difficulties, software engineers will have to learn not only how to do their
job, but also how to explain their work to others, and how to understand when
others' work is explained to them. For these reasons, they have (and will always
have) an increasing need for methods.
The days of intuitive programming and programs that 'fall into place' are
over. The golden age of grown-up, reasoned and efficient software engineering has
arrived!
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