> This again? In general, Software Engineering is not engineering.

Software Engineering is definitely Engineering. But Software Development usually doesn't practice it. I've got a degree in Computer Engineering and took SE courses and at least at the companies I've been at, we never did any of that. You can't use formal methods without a formalized specification, and I never even got a written specification of any project I worked on in 20+ years. Regardless, Software Engineers don't wear stripey hats and are not real engineers.

There's not much structual engineering in single family home construction either. A couple story wood frame building needs to be pretty exotic to have structural issues (but soft story buildings used to be common and collapse with strong earthquakes)

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tsss 2 days ago | parent [-]

You never got a properly dimensioned wireframe model from your UI designer? That's a specification too.

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		I don't do a lot of frontend work. But when I did, the mocks were almost always best case; no mocks for when there was missing data (which was often). I did work on one project with an interaction designer, which was great --- having all the flows laid out was awesome, but it was only the happy path.