Software Engineering at Google

2017/02/06 by Fergus Henderson, Henderson, Fergus · 7 voices · 4 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #Computer science #Open Source Software Innovations #Operating system #Software #Software Engineering Research #Software engineering #World Wide Web #cs.SE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.01715

20 pages, single-column, 11pt, version #3 (added section 3.5)

openalex publication_date 2017/02/06 · arxiv created 2020/01/30 · arxiv updated 2020/01/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We catalog and describe Google's key software engineering practices.

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