Software Engineering

5.2 
Software engineering and development
The current situation confronting software development projects is assessed in 
chapter 6, Impediments to Software Design. The success of every software develop-
ment project is dependent on establishment of a product architecture as the foun-
dation upon which the software product can be implemented (programmatically 
designed, coded, integrated and tested), tested and supported throughout its life-
cycle. The remainder of this book will address the software engineering and devel-
opment tasks. The software engineering tasks are addressed throughout Section 2. 
Each chapter in that section focuses on a major element of the software engineering 

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