What is a software development engineer?

Software engineer is a kind of professional ability certification for software professionals, which shows that they have the qualification of engineers. Software engineer is a general term for software developers. Usually people confuse programmers (English programmers), which are actually two different natures. Programmers are professionals engaged in program development and maintenance. Programmers are generally divided into programmers and programmers, but the boundary between them is not clear, especially in China. Software practitioners are divided into five categories: junior programmers, senior programmers, system analysts, system architects and test engineers.

The work of a software engineer is different from that of a programmer, but a software engineer must be an excellent programmer.

First of all, the biggest difference between software engineers and programmers in their work can be compared: if a software is compared to a bridge, then the software engineer is equivalent to the construction chief commander, while the general developer, that is, the programmer, is equivalent to the construction worker, so many people say that they are IT migrant workers.

To be an excellent software development engineer, you must have the following abilities:

1, demand analysis ability

For software engineers, understanding requirements can complete qualified code, but for the organizations and managers of R&D projects, they should not only understand customer requirements, but also make some requirements themselves.

2. Project design method and process handling ability

Software development engineers must be able to master at least two or three project design methods, and can choose the appropriate design method for the overall design of the project according to the project requirements and resource allocation.

3. Reuse design and module decomposition ability

As a software development engineer engaged in modular tasks, he needs to consider the reusability of the specific functional modules he faces, while as a system analyst, the problems he faces are much more complicated. He needs to decompose the whole system into many reusable functional modules and functions according to a modular analysis ability, and form an independent design requirement for each module.