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@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ If we step even further beyond software engineering as an activity and think mor
There are also _economic_ roles that software plays in society that it didn't before. Around the world, software is a major source of job growth, but also a major source of automation, eliminating jobs that people used to do. These larger forces that software is playing on the world demand that software engineers have a stronger understanding of the roles that software plays in society, as the decisions that engineers make can have profoundly impactful unintended consequences. There are also _economic_ roles that software plays in society that it didn't before. Around the world, software is a major source of job growth, but also a major source of automation, eliminating jobs that people used to do. These larger forces that software is playing on the world demand that software engineers have a stronger understanding of the roles that software plays in society, as the decisions that engineers make can have profoundly impactful unintended consequences.
We're nowhere close to having deep answers about these questions, neither the old ones or the new ones. We know _a lot_ about programming languages and _a lot_ about testing. These are areas amenable to automation and so computer science has rapidly improved and accelerated these parts of software engineering. The rest of it, as we shall see in this, has not made much progress. In this class, we'll discuss what we know and the much larger space of what we don't. We're nowhere close to having deep answers about these questions, neither the old ones or the new ones. We know _a lot_ about programming languages and _a lot_ about testing. These are areas amenable to automation and so computer science has rapidly improved and accelerated these parts of software engineering. The rest of it, as we shall see, has not made much progress. In this book, we'll discuss what we know and the much larger space of what we don't.