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Synopsis Today, the discipline of Computer Science is concerned with developing large applications.  Software Engineering covers not only the technical aspects to building software systems, but also management issues, such as directing programming teams, scheduling and budgeting.  It is called ‘Engineering’, though early practitioners wished to call it ‘Software Physics’, but that term was already in use.  In fact, they decided to call it software physics, because they believed that the software physics, because they believed that the process of producing software could be formulized with such rigour that it would be on all focus with physics.  Indeed, text from the ‘80s were populated with theories, derivations, tables, graphs, equations and formulae – apparently in an attempt to look mathematical and scientific in nature.  However, within a few years, the inadequacy of those texts became clear, and the situation changed rapidly, and today’s texts contain virtually no formulae or equations.  In spite of that, the title, Software Engineering has been retained with authors, claiming in their introductions that, e.g. ‘Software Engineering employs engineering methods, processes, techniques and measurement”.

The Present work, in the form of a semi-textbook is meant for serving teachers and students at a large scale.