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		Traubenfuchs on Oct 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? No, it's mostly a highly subjective and opinion driven craft. One just can not call CRUD spaghetti and SPA madness engineering. The little code that exists that receives MC/DC testing might be worth to be called "engineered".

tamimio on Oct 5, 2023 [–]

Pretty much yeah, it isn’t a software engineering issue, it’s the majority of what’s built wouldn’t count as engineering.

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