For technical approaches to software, see Software engineering.
Software studies is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which studies software systems and their social and cultural effects. The implementation and use of software has been studied in recent fields such as cyberculture, Internet studies, new media studies, and digital culture, yet prior to software studies, software was rarely ever addressed as a distinct object of study. To study software as an artifact, software studies draws upon methods and theory from the digital humanities and from computational perspectives on software. Methodologically, software studies usually differs from the approaches of computer science and software engineering, which concern themselves primarily with software in information theory and in practical application; however, these fields all share an emphasis on computer literacy, particularly in the areas of programming and source code. This emphasis on analysing software sources and processes (rather than interfaces) often distinguishes software studies from new media studies, which is usually restricted to discussions of interfaces and observable effects.
Softwarestudies is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which studiessoftware systems and their social and cultural effects. The implementation...
Studying in an educational context refers to the process of gaining mastery of a certain area of information. Studysoftware then is any program which...
Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as...
key role in creating four new research fields: new media studies (1991-), softwarestudies (2001-), cultural analytics (2007-) and AI aesthetics (2018-)...
Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to...
freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software. Software which meets these requirements, The Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, is termed...
(2009). Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and SoftwareStudies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780262013437. OCLC 827013290...
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Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...
Critical code studies (CCS) is an emerging academic subfield, related to softwarestudies, digital humanities, cultural studies, computer science, human–computer...
aerospace. The trend towards agile methods in software engineering is noticeable, however the need for improved studies on the subject is also paramount. Also...
Agile software development is the mindset for developing software that derives from values agreed upon by The Agile Alliance, a group of 17 software practitioners...
Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective, independent information about...
Empirical software engineering (ESE) is a subfield of software engineering (SE) research that uses empirical research methods to study and evaluate an...
boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional...
A software bug is a bug in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a software bug range...
ranges from language learning software to classroom management software to reference software. The purpose of all this software is to make some part of education...
applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software). Algorithms and data structures are central to computer science. The theory...
with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Generally...
Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. The documentation either...
Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...
empirical software engineering emphasizes the use of empirical studies of all kinds to accumulate knowledge. Methods used include experiments, case studies, surveys...
Software maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery. Software maintenance is often considered lower skilled and less rewarding...
A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software)...
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