Software engineering

Quality:

Software engineering - academic discipline that studies systematic approaches to developing software. Article “Software engineering” in English Wikipedia has 75 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 113 references and 28 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.94 points.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9142^nd most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3535^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8535^th most popular in all topics.

The 5389^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Software engineering” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Software engineering”, its content was written by 1300 registered users of English Wikipedia (3535^th place) and edited by 3468 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5389^th place).

The article is cited 2490 times in English Wikipedia and cited 14149 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36 in November 2002
• Global: #88 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3211 in September 2014
• Global: #3601 in February 2008

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Rekayasa perangkat lunak		75.7921
2	English (en) Software engineering		74.9528
3	Hebrew (he) הנדסת תוכנה		58.9951
4	Spanish (es) Ingeniería de software		53.2714
5	Catalan (ca) Enginyeria de programari		50.4689
6	Chinese (zh) 软件工程		45.897
7	Latin (la) Ingeniaria corporum programmatum		38.4518
8	Bulgarian (bg) Софтуерно инженерство		37.8051
9	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia de software		37.5219
10	Dutch (nl) Software engineering		37.4867

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software engineering		15 297 329
2	Spanish (es) Ingeniería de software		4 156 094
3	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia de software		1 935 694
4	German (de) Softwaretechnik		1 647 709
5	Arabic (ar) هندسة البرمجيات		966 069
6	French (fr) Génie logiciel		788 497
7	Indonesian (id) Rekayasa perangkat lunak		704 117
8	Russian (ru) Программная инженерия		652 582
9	Persian (fa) مهندسی نرم‌افزار		507 242
10	Chinese (zh) 软件工程		488 770

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software engineering		19 556
2	Spanish (es) Ingeniería de software		2 192
3	Russian (ru) Программная инженерия		1 551
4	German (de) Softwaretechnik		1 265
5	Chinese (zh) 软件工程		1 121
6	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia de software		885
7	French (fr) Génie logiciel		711
8	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア工学		582
9	Persian (fa) مهندسی نرم‌افزار		434
10	Italian (it) Ingegneria del software		300

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software engineering		1 300
2	Spanish (es) Ingeniería de software		276
3	German (de) Softwaretechnik		222
4	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia de software		149
5	French (fr) Génie logiciel		131
6	Hebrew (he) הנדסת תוכנה		124
7	Persian (fa) مهندسی نرم‌افزار		100
8	Italian (it) Ingegneria del software		91
9	Arabic (ar) هندسة البرمجيات		80
10	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア工学		62

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) Engenharia de software		4
2	Arabic (ar) هندسة البرمجيات		3
3	Catalan (ca) Enginyeria de programari		2
4	English (en) Software engineering		2
5	Danish (da) Softwareudvikling		1
6	Basque (eu) Software ingeniaritza		1
7	Armenian (hy) Ծրագրային ապահովման ինժեներիա		1
8	Indonesian (id) Rekayasa perangkat lunak		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Proqram təminatı mühəndisliyi		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Софтуерно инженерство		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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