Software Engineering

Teaching in a Software Engineering programme, I have been asked on more than one occasion, "What's the difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science?" Over the years I have developed my view on what it is and why it matters. Below are various thoughts on this subject as well as other software engineering related topics. Listed roughly in reverse order of writing

14 August 2015 Failures? What Failures? — what is a software failure?
7 August 2015 Software Developer vs Software Engineer — what might be the distinction be between these two titles.
31 July 2015 The software engineering profession — How does software engineering compare as a profession to other engineering disciplines?
24 July 2015 Is software engineering "engineering"? — Why software engineering is as much engineering as any other kind of engineering.
17 July 2015 Software Engineering vs Computer Science (take 2) — A discussion as to why two different programmes are needed.
10 July 2015 What is Software Engineering? — We can't really distinguish Software Engineering from anything if we have different ideas as to what it is.
2 June 2015 Software Engineering vs Computer Science — Update on my thinking, written more as a "blog" and for a wider audience.
May 2009 Two Worlds — An essay, and a condensed version of it, on the difference between software engineering and computer science. Written mainly for software engineering academics.
3 May 2007 The 'Linearly Independent Paths' Metric for Java CCN is a often-identified software metric. This discusses what it might mean for Java.
13 March 2007 'Number of classes' as a size metric for OO Applications — A discussion of what a metric with this name might mean.
March 2007 On naming of metrics — why we should name metrics according to what they actually measure, rather than on what we would like them to measure.