DE-RSE/2023_paper-RSE-groups

software: "created by humans"

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We currently write:

Software:
Source code, documentation, tests, executables and all other artefacts that are created by humans during the development process that are necessary to understand its purpose.

I do not understand what "created by humans" here means. Who or what else creates "source code, documentation, tests and executables" and why does it matter who or what created it? "auto-generated software" would also be software, as would be "AI-generated software" (which is nothing else than software-generated software).

TODO: ideally match with definitions in competency paper