Software

The entertainment programs, routines, and symbolic languages that control the functioning of the hardware and direct its operation.The suite of all computer programs, including operating system, compilers, packages, and user programs, which enable a particular computer centre to operate. The notion is contrasted with the hardware and the live ware. Software engineering is a methodology for developing computer software with the objective of ensuring that the software is efficient, does the job for which it is intended, and is produced within cost and on time.