Software Engineers' Importance

Software Engineers' Importance

Introduction

Development and designing of computer software are conducted by computer software engineers. They apply the principles, theories of mathematical and computer science to test, evaluate and create the systems and software applications through which computers work. There are various kinds of software developed by software engineers such as business applications, computer games, network control structure, middleware and operating systems (Friedman, 2005). This designing and development of software need software engineers to be experts of software structures, computing systems and the limitations and nature of hardware to ensure that the underlying system will properly be supported by it. The software developed by engineers is designed after evaluating the needs of users. Developing software is not just a game rather software engineers have to go through different process which enable them to finally design unique and efficient software. Systems of organizations and business depend upon computer software and the day is not far enough when they will solely rely upon these programs (Parnas, 1979).

Thesis Statement

“Rapid technological growth has increased the need of software engineers with certain core competencies around the world.”

Discussion

Requirements

There are is a set of core competency for software engineering which should be possessed and practiced by every software engineer (Shaw, 2005). These capabilities are mostly abstract such to reason in an official system. The basic core competencies required to be attained by every software engineers can formally be listed:

They should be able to find out the needs of a client then translate them to system requirements and software.

Settling the contradictory objectives, searching the satisfactory the negotiations within the restriction of time, cost and knowledge. They should be able to understand the nature of open-ended and unstructured problems.

Be able to design suitable and workable solutions through utilization of dependable engineering approaches.

They should be able to apply and understand the models and theories which present a ground for software designing.

Be able to work in interdisciplinary situations and circumstances specially to link the gap between the technology of client and actual computing technology and to analyze and interpret other technical limitations.

Able to work inside the existing system, both organization and software objects.

They should be able to understand and apply the recent elements of technical solutions. It includes particular tools, mechanism, structure and other elements such as architectures and algorithms.

They should be able to plan effectively along with the creation of codes, integration ...