Is software development an engineering discipline?

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Published on 2008-10-16T17:38:56Z Indexed on 2012/11/16 11:14 UTC
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Can software development be considered engineering? If no, what are the things that it lacks in order to be qualified as an engineering discipline? Related to this is this question on Stack Overflow about the difference between a programmer and a software engineer.

There is the Software Engineering Institute at Carnigie Mellon University that prescribes and maintains the CMMI standards. Is this something that will turn development into engineering?

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