Large-scale software development is a sociotechnical activity only bounded by human imagination, ingenuity, and creativity. It involves teams of developers progressing by coordinating their activities and communicating their bottlenecks, goals, and advancements toward the wider goal of creating large, high-quality software systems. The stakeholders they serve are diverse (for example, clients, infrastructure providers, open source communities, project managers, and regulatory authorities), and often they have many competing, implicit requirements. But, as the political and legal implications of algorithms and data (https://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html) increasingly affect society, it is imperative that the systems the developers build are high quality in terms of accurately embodying all of those requirements.

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软件工程行为科学

大规模软件开发是一种社会技术活动，仅受人类想象力、独创性和创造力的限制。它涉及开发团队通过协调他们的活动和沟通他们的瓶颈、目标和进步来实现更广泛的目标，即创建大型、高质量的软件系统。他们服务的利益相关者是多种多样的（例如，客户、基础设施提供商、开源社区、项目经理和监管机构），而且他们通常有许多相互竞争的隐性需求。但是，随着算法和数据 (https://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html) 的政治和法律影响日益影响社会，开发人员构建的系统必须具有高质量准确地体现所有这些要求。