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This document addresses software technology in its broadest
interpretation. Technology is the practical application of scientific
knowledge in a particular domain or in a particular manner to accomplish a
task. For the purposes of this document, software technology is defined as:
the theory and practice of various sciences (to include computer, cognitive,
statistical sciences, and others) applied to software development, operation,
understanding, and maintenance.
More specifically, we view software technology as any concept, process,
method, algorithm, or tool, whose primary purpose is the development,
operation, and maintenance of software or software-intensive
systems. Technology is not just the technical artifacts, but the knowledge
embedded in those artifacts and the knowledge required for their effective
use. Software technology may include the following:
- Technology directly used in operational systems, for example: two
tier/three tier software architectures, public key digital signatures, remote
procedure calls (RPCs), rule-based intrusion detection.
- Technology used in tools that produce (or help produce) or maintain
operational systems, for example: graphical user interface (GUI) builders,
cyclomatic complexity, Ada 95 programming language, technologies for design
rationale capture.
- Process technologies that make people more effective in producing and
maintaining operational systems and tools by structuring development
approaches or enabling analysis of systems/product lines. Examples include:
Personal Software Process1 (PSP) for Module-Level Development,
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Domain Engineering and Domain Analysis.
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Personal Software Process and PSP are service marks of Carnegie Mellon
University
The Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and
development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense
and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
Copyright
2007
by Carnegie Mellon University
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URL: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/defining.html
Last Modified: 11 January 2007
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