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Software engineering as a discipline arose in response to the ‘software crisis’ recognised about ten years ago and which gave rise to the two NATO conferences in Garmisch and Rome [l], [2]. These two conferences provided the impetus for the introduction of a course in software engineering as part of the computers and cybernetics degree course at the University of Kent. Software engineering lacks a...