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As we saw in the previous chapter, the concept of process is at the heart of the software engineering approach. According to Webster, the term process means “a particular method of doing something, generally involving a number of steps or operations.” In software engineering, the phrase software process refers to the method of developing software.

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Jalote, P. (1997). Software Processes. In: An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9312-2_2

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