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software engineering

The process of creating and developing a piece of software for distribution.
The company's software engineering team developed a program to share files.
by jordan October 8, 2003
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software engineering

1. An engineering discipline that is increasingly turning into a commodity much like cattle farming in the agriculture industry.

2. Disposable code factories, not cost effective to reuse or refurbish.
If those software engineers don't get the project done by the deadline, we will replace them with ones from India.
by Snowcat October 10, 2003
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software engineering

A widely used noun that is a oxymoron. Software cannot be engineered.
I rigorously derived a mathematically provable peice of psuedo-code. (Yeah, right...)
by S. Rittenhouse February 1, 2004
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software engineering

process which involves a sledge hammer and microsoft os.
fatal error one oh one..hmmm,guess i better do some software engineering..
by wired_duck January 27, 2004
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software engineer

one who is an engineer of software and spends 20 percent of his/her day doing so the other 80 percent is looking up porn!
what did you do at work today bob? oh nothing just "booted my harddrive"
by Dr. Fatz February 2, 2004
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software version age dating

revealing your age by referring to the old software you used to use
I though he was like 25 but then he told me that he used to use Illustrator 88 ... so using software version age dating he must be at least 40.
by pixelfairy August 25, 2008
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software engineering

The process of designing and developing a piece of binary code that does stuff like sharing MP3s, creating popups, sending out spams...
software engineering? It's more like software degenerating!
by Billy Gate January 23, 2004
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