Re:Engineering Is Not Science
by jdp23 on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:16PM
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there's always been a lot of debate about whether software engineering is part of computer science or a separate profession.
looking at it through my own personal lens ... PREfix and PREfast (the static analysis tools i architected) were primarily software engineering -- we published in the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. others working in the same space took more of a computer science approach, developed far more precise models and made breakthroughs in SAT and BDD. over time the two streams merged, which is a big win all around.
on the other hand, some of my other work was very CS-y -- looking at formalizing security algebras, for example, and applying standpoint epistemology to graph theory. so in the end i consider myself both a computer scientist and a software engineer.
looking at it through my own personal lens ... PREfix and PREfast (the static analysis tools i architected) were primarily software engineering -- we published in the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. others working in the same space took more of a computer science approach, developed far more precise models and made breakthroughs in SAT and BDD. over time the two streams merged, which is a big win all around.
on the other hand, some of my other work was very CS-y -- looking at formalizing security algebras, for example, and applying standpoint epistemology to graph theory. so in the end i consider myself both a computer scientist and a software engineer.