Software Engineering at Google

Software engineering is programming integrated over time.
- programming is how you generate new software in the first place
- Programming tasks (development) and software engineering tasks (development, modification, maintenance).
Your project is sustainable if, for the expected life span of your software, you are capable of reacting to whatever valuable change comes along, for either technical or business reasons.
A programming task is often an act of individual creation, but a software engineering task is a team effort
Software engineering is different from programming in terms of the complexity of decisions that need to be made and their stakes.