The article proposes an approach to defining a set of basic notions for subject area of software engineering discipline to serve as a basis for detection and correction of some widespread conceptual mistakes in the efforts aimed at improving the quality and work productivity in creation and operation of software.
A later translation (2015) of the article in Russian published in 1990. The article proposes an approach to defining a set of basic notions for subject area of software engineering discipline. The set of notions is intended to serve as a basis for detection and correction of some widespread conceptual mistakes in the efforts aimed at improving the quality and work productivity in creation and operation of software.