The transition from software development to software engineering

Characteristics of technologies and their meaning for new technology-based firms (NTBF)

“…Experiments and tests are sometimes time consuming but hardly capital intensive[2, 41. There are new trends coming up industrial R&D changing software programming activities and making them more efficient [28]. Some years ago and in many cases even today software programming is practiced by specialists as a craftby intuition and experience [2, 281.…”

“…Material testing especially under exceptional conditions are common and require special laboratory equipment [9]. In addition, materials are consumed for design, build and test cycles [28]. There is a trend to nondestructive testing to save expensive materials [9].…”