Software Engineering

6.2.1 
Software development methods and standards
The development of software products has evolved through a series of forms that 
have been dictated by programming languages, computer technologies, and soft-
ware methodologies. Early software programs were small, noncomplex assem-
blages of routines, subroutines, functions, or modules. Flow-charting techniques 
were initially used to provide a design foundation from which software code could 
be generated, converted to machine-executable format (compiled and assembled), 
and verified to perform correctly. As the size and complexity of software programs