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Software Development

Technical Report
Over the last 20 years, the set of software tools available to developers has expanded considerably. We can illustrate this change by observing some distinctions in the terminology.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-87-TR-024

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"Environment" refers to the collection of hardware and software tools that a system developer uses to build software systems. As technology improves and user expectations grow, an environment's functionality tends to change. Over the last 20 years, the set of software tools available to developers has expanded considerably. We can illustrate this change by observing some distinctions in the terminology. "Programming environment" and "software development environment" are often used synonymously, but here we make a distinction between the two.

Cite This Technical Report

Dart, S., & Ellison, R. (1987, October 1). Software Development. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-024). Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/software-development/.

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author={Dart, Susan and Ellison, Robert},
title={Software Development},
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howpublished={Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library},
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Dart, Susan, and Robert Ellison. "Software Development." (CMU/SEI-87-TR-024). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, October 1, 1987. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/software-development/.

S. Dart, and R. Ellison, "Software Development," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-024, 1-Oct-1987 [Online]. Available: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/software-development/. [Accessed: 24-Apr-2024].

Dart, Susan, and Robert Ellison. "Software Development." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-024). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Oct. 1987. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/software-development/. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

Dart, Susan; & Ellison, Robert. Software Development. CMU/SEI-87-TR-024. Software Engineering Institute. 1987. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/software-development/