Definitions of Software engineering from Different sources

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1. Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.SWEBOK


2. University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila commonly referred to as UET Taxila is located at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 1975 as a campus of University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. It was chartered as an independent university in 1993.


3. The term software engineering was defined for the first time during a conference of the NATO Science Committee \cite{Naur&al1969} as "the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain economically software that is reliable and works efficiently on real machines


4. Formal (or semi-formal) software models, and more particularly object-oriented ones, are now widely used in software development. In this context, textual knowledge represents specification and design documents. These informal sources are used as a basis for building formal models. ...


5. A collection of theories, techniques, and tools which enable fallible humans to design, construct and maintain large software products in a reliable and cost effective manner.


According to the word IQ the definition is as follows.please kind the following link.