IT FRESHERS

Most software engineers work as employees or contractors. Software engineers work with businesses, government agencies (civilian or military), and non-profit organizations. Some software engineers work for themselves as freelancers. Some organizations have specialists to perform each of the tasks in the software development process. Other organizations required software engineers to do many or all of them. In large projects, people may specialize in only one role. In small projects, people may fill several or all roles at the same time. Specializations include: in industry (analysts, architects, developers, testers, technical support, managers) and in academia (educators, researchers).

Branch of programming

Programming emphasizes writing code, independent of projects and customers. Software engineering emphasizes writing code in the context of projects and customers by making plans and delivering applications. As a branch of programming, SE would probably have no significant licensing or professionalism issues.

Branch of computer science

Many believe that software engineering is a part of computer science, because of their close historical connections and their relationship to mathematics. They advocate keeping SE a part of computer science. Both computer science and software engineering care about programs. Computer science emphasizes the theoretical, eternal truths while software engineering emphasizes practical, everyday usefulness. Some argue that computer science is to software engineering as physics and chemistry are to traditional engineering. As a branch of computer science, SE would probably have few licensing or professionalism concerns.

Branch of engineering

Some SE academics and practitioners, such as David Parnas[8] and Steve McConnell[9], have advocated treating SE an engineering discipline. Advocates for this view argue that the practice of engineering involves the use of mathematics, science, and the technology of the day, to build trustworthy products that are "fit for purpose", a description that applies as well to SE as to any other engineering dicsipline. As a branch of engineering, SE would probably adopt the engineering model of licensing and professionalism.

Freestanding field

Recently, software engineering has been finding its own identity and emerging as an important freestanding field[citation needed]. Practitioners are slowly realizing that they form a huge community in their own right. Software engineering may need to create a form of regulation/licensing appropriate to its own circumstances[citation needed]. It is arguable that licensing (in the United States) is inappropriate because the creation of software represents a form of writing, and requiring people to be licensed in order to write computer programs may be a violation of the First Amendment[citation needed]. Requiring software engineers to be licensed by a government bureaucracy would make persons who create software without a license into criminals, even if they give their software away, same as practicing medicine or law without a license, even for free, is a criminal offense.