An Overview of Software Engineering Process and Its Improvement

The software engineering process is concerned with the definition, implementation, measurement, change, and improvement of software processes. This short article presents software engineering process knowledge along the lines of the software engineering body of knowledge (International Organization for Standardization & International Electrotechnical Commission [ISO/IEC], 2005b). The objective of the software engineering process is to implement new or better processes in current software engineering practice.

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