Rural Dictionary

software engineer

One who both designs and codes commercial computer programs. It combines the specialties of system analyst and programmer. The term is denigrated by "professional" engineers because there are no licensing or standards boards. Anyone can call himself a Software Engineer.

Our software development project went very smoothly because the software engineers were fully involved from the initial specifications through product completion and testing.

by Eric Jensen January 31, 2004

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software engineer

Software Engineer is a professional that uses Software Engineering and all of its engineering principals during all phases of software development. Too bad this was only achieved once in all of recorded history.

That hacker called himself a software enginer.
That coder thinks she is a software engineer.
Those programmer wishes they were software engineers.
I am the only software engineer I know that is why we don't have a union.

by joepa February 18, 2004

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Bethesda Software

A Video game Developer/Publisher. Responsible for Many truly epic games, which also have truly epic bugs. Lists of bugs for their games are dozens of pages long, and their patches often leave the games worse off than before. Currently the Reigning king of the unpolished game.

DUDE 1: I can't wait For the new game by Bethesda Software!!!

DUDE 2: I can wait. They never finish their games until a few months after release. Why should I pay them to be a Beta tester.

by Eldrich Thurge January 22, 2012

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software engineering

Software engineering is the application of science
to consistently produce software based systems
that are acceptable against the needed criteria
(reliability, maintainability, security, safety,
efficiency, usability) in a cost effective way.

I am a software engineer.

by Matt Sharpe February 5, 2004

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