Comment by gabrielpoca118
3 days ago
But what about other engineering fields? From what I understand, if you compare it to chemical engineering, you have many more similarities, because you’re doing Hypothesis -> Experiment -> Analyze -> Refine -> Repeat, which seems very similar to what we do in software
Mechanical engineering also uses prototypes, iteration, lab testing etc. Building architects build multiple models before the first shovel is put into the ground.
Software is clearly different than "hardware", but it doesn't mean that other industries do not use experiment and iteration.
ok you lost me then xD I was trying to understand what you meant by it not being engineering most of the time.
I will add this link once more.
This is the talk on real software engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdlBHHimeM