Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)
by Jtsummers on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:33AM
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> No point in building the wrong thing well.
This is validation, and in systems engineering (which software engineering both came from and fed back into before we, in software, forgot about it). It's part of the V&V (verification and validation) portion of system development. Verification means ensuring the system is correct with respect to the specifications and requirements. Validation means ensuring that what's being made is actually the correct, desired thing.
We need our software engineers to study systems engineering, where you will find formal methods being applied to the task of developing complex systems, and rather effectively at that.
This is validation, and in systems engineering (which software engineering both came from and fed back into before we, in software, forgot about it). It's part of the V&V (verification and validation) portion of system development. Verification means ensuring the system is correct with respect to the specifications and requirements. Validation means ensuring that what's being made is actually the correct, desired thing.
We need our software engineers to study systems engineering, where you will find formal methods being applied to the task of developing complex systems, and rather effectively at that.