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Is there any term in software engineering more ambiguous than "software design"?

2 pointsby bkovitz5 months ago

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dlcarrier5 months ago
Thanks for linking to old. reddit; the new page noticeably increases power consumption.<p>Anyway, I think &#x27;software engineering&#x27; makes less sense than &#x27;software design&#x27;. Everything that made has a design, whether it was created intentionally or not, but only an intentionally planned design is engineered, so all software has a design but not all software is engineered.
FrankWilhoit5 months ago
Architecture maps responsibilities to capabilities. Analysis maps a problem space to a model. Design transforms a model into a better model. (This is implicitly iterative.) Implementation maps the designed model to buildables&#x2F;deployables&#x2F;runnables.