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Software engineering

the difficulty inherent in the problem a program must solve, as opposed to accidental difficulty from tools and methods.

In software engineering, essential complexity refers to the difficulty inherent in the problem a program must solve, as opposed to accidental difficulty from tools and methods. This meaning comes from Brooks (1987) in Computer.[1]

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References

Brooks (1987). No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. Computer, 20(4), 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.1987.1663532

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