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I pretty much don’t know a team that doesn’t have at least testing/staging environments. I don’t know a team that doesn’t use GIT and some issue tracker.

That’s already engineering. Your sentiment is cute but I think you have some romantic vision of what „real engineering” is.



Those are (trivial) software project management. It's a tiny part of the picture.

Software engineering goes a lot deeper than that; look at any serious accredited syllabus.

But almost nobody practises it these days, you are right. The web kind of blurred the line between software and document for a while and a lot of stuff got lost.

That's not a reason to practise even less.


Can you give an example because your „accredited syllabus” is vague.

Keep in mind I have engineering degree and 15 years of experience so you are not writing back to 20 years old hack who just learned PHP.




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