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Software engineering is a domain which involves designing, creating and maintenance of software, applying practices and technologies which belong to the computer science, project management, engineering, design interface, and other domains.



The standard model for a computer program developing is the Waterfall Model. This contains 4 stages in creating a computer program:

1. Obtaining requirements

2. Designing

3. Effective programming

4. Testing



A software is a program system for computers, including their application procedures, provided with the computer system itself or subsequently created by the user. In contrast, the word hardware designates the physical part of the computer or the computer system. Generally, in order to work, a computer system needs both components, and the data that needs to be processed. Often these data are considered to be a part of a software.

The software component may include the entire range of application products, usually formed of operating system, drivers and application programs. In some cases, parts of a software are built-in the hardware from manufacturing, by using the programmed integrated circuits.

In some areas, by software you understand the data with which the devices or computers work, like digital images, sounds and music, computer games, digital movies, video clips and many other similar data. In extreme cases, even the physical data carriers or "media" are considered to be a software, like the optical discs - CD and DVD, the VHS video cassettes and miniDV, audio cassettes, etc.

A separate but related term is the firmware, also known as microprogram or microcode.

You have here a list of famous software creator companies: ACD systems, Adobe, Ahead, Apple, Blender Foundation, Borland, Corel, Eteks Software, Flexera Software, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Ixia, Lasting Software, Rovi Corporation, Mandriva, Microsoft, Mozilla Foundation, MySQL AB, Netscape, Novell, Nullsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Romania Soft Company, SCO, SAP, Senior Software, SIVECO, Softwin, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, etc.

We provided you with this list which contains all the types of computer software:

Applications

- Accounting

- Enterprise resource planning

- Customer relationship management

Automation

Optical media printing software

Data processing

- Data recovery

- Database systems

- Backup software

- Archiving files



Emulation

- Disk image emulator

Editor of input methods

Game engines

Internet software

- E-mail client

- Peer to peer file sharing (P2P)

- FTP client

- HTML editor

- Instant messaging client

- Offline browser

- Web browser

Mathematical software

Operating system

Web operating system

Personal data processing

Engineering software

- Bug tracker

- Compiler

- Debugger

- Integrated development environment

- Revision control

- Documentation generator

- Install software

- Uninstall software

Software suite

- Graphic suite

- Internet suite

- Desk suite

Multimedia

- Audio editor

- Graphic software

- 3D computer graphics software

- Software for editing raster graphics

- Software for editing vector graphics

- Software for multimedia rendering

- Video editing software

Security

- Antivirus

- Firewall

- Encryption

- Password cracking / recovery / auditing

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