Which question no longer concerns the modern software engineer?
Today the increased power of the personal computer has brought about an abandonment of the practice of team development of software.
Software is a product and can be manufactured using the same technologies used for other engineering artifacts.
Software deteriorates rather than wears out because
Most software continues to be custom built because
The nature of software applications can be characterized by their information
Modern software applications are so complex that it is hard to develop mutually exclusive category names.
The so called "new economy" that gripped commerce and finance during the 1990s died and no longer influences decisions made by businesses and software engineers.
The functionality of most computer systems does not need to be enhanced the lifetime of the system.
Change cannot be easily accommodated in most software systems, unless the system was designed with change in mind.