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Software Engineering, is a compiled process having predefined and precise stages. That's why softwares are engineered not manufactured.
Kamal Singh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.131.103.131 ( talk) 04:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC).
This category was removed from Category:Engineering during an aggressive cleanup of that category in summer/fall 2007. This category page and the main article clearly describe "software engineering" as a type of engineering, so I've reclassed this back into Category:Engineering disciplines. Arguably it could just be a subcat of Category:Computer engineering and Category:Systems engineering. -- lquilter 22:21, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
See Comparison of software engineering and related fields where the absence of agreement is noted. In the absence of agreement, it needs to be at the "Computing" level, where all interested readers, not just those who think the field is a subcategory of Computer science, can find it. Particularly the Software engineers -- who do not seem to support computer science's claim on their field! Thanks tooold 02:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be back and forth with opinions and assertions being made in the edit summaries. Can we establish a consensus here? This comment was recently added to the text of the article (in a hiddent comment):
One editor deleted category:Software, stating
"Software engineering is NOT a subcat of software" another editor restored the category, stating (in a talk page)
"People browsing the Category:Software category should have ready access to Category:Software engineering."
I suppose the germain question is "Is the discipline(s) that creates a thing an appropriate subcategory of that thing?" If the categories are treated as 'types' (i.e. object oriented), obviously not. "Software engineering" is not a "type of" software, while "Web Browsers" would most likely be considered a subtype (at some level) of "Software". If the categories are supposed to "help users find information" (from WP:CAT), then is it appropriate to make it a subcategory? For some random examples, Category:Wine has Category:Oenology and Category:Viticulture, which are not 'types of' wine. While under Category:Housing, Category:Architecture and Category:Construction are not found, there is more of a 'types of ...' housing as subcats Cander0000 ( talk) 05:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
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Software Engineering, is a compiled process having predefined and precise stages. That's why softwares are engineered not manufactured.
Kamal Singh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.131.103.131 ( talk) 04:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC).
This category was removed from Category:Engineering during an aggressive cleanup of that category in summer/fall 2007. This category page and the main article clearly describe "software engineering" as a type of engineering, so I've reclassed this back into Category:Engineering disciplines. Arguably it could just be a subcat of Category:Computer engineering and Category:Systems engineering. -- lquilter 22:21, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
See Comparison of software engineering and related fields where the absence of agreement is noted. In the absence of agreement, it needs to be at the "Computing" level, where all interested readers, not just those who think the field is a subcategory of Computer science, can find it. Particularly the Software engineers -- who do not seem to support computer science's claim on their field! Thanks tooold 02:45, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be back and forth with opinions and assertions being made in the edit summaries. Can we establish a consensus here? This comment was recently added to the text of the article (in a hiddent comment):
One editor deleted category:Software, stating
"Software engineering is NOT a subcat of software" another editor restored the category, stating (in a talk page)
"People browsing the Category:Software category should have ready access to Category:Software engineering."
I suppose the germain question is "Is the discipline(s) that creates a thing an appropriate subcategory of that thing?" If the categories are treated as 'types' (i.e. object oriented), obviously not. "Software engineering" is not a "type of" software, while "Web Browsers" would most likely be considered a subtype (at some level) of "Software". If the categories are supposed to "help users find information" (from WP:CAT), then is it appropriate to make it a subcategory? For some random examples, Category:Wine has Category:Oenology and Category:Viticulture, which are not 'types of' wine. While under Category:Housing, Category:Architecture and Category:Construction are not found, there is more of a 'types of ...' housing as subcats Cander0000 ( talk) 05:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)