Software engineering
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2011
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Pearson
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As I was writing the final chapters in this book in the summer of 2009, I realized that software engineering was 40 years old. The name ‘software engineering’ was proposed in 1969 at a NATO conference to discuss software development problems—large software systems were late, did not deliver the functionality needed by their users, cost more than expected, and were unreliable.