Roles in Software Engineering

As seen in the previous chapter, large software projects will involve a lot of parts and will often require a team to complete them. Members of the team will need to take ownership over particular parts of the project, but how are they matched with these parts? The planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases have unique needs and problems to solve. Software engineers will spend most of their time in implementation, testing, and maintenance but may focus on specific parts within these steps based on their specialties. Software engineering has a vast number of roles and unique specializations that solve a particular problem in a project. Software engineers are able to take on various coding tasks but usually specialize in a particular type of coding. Building software also requires skill sets focused on technical planning and strategy, which are normally not the responsibility of a software engineer.

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