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Does software have the equivalent consensus standards like other engineering disciplines? Or more importantly, are they as readily adopted? It seems like there's a cultural problem with software development that would be an impediment to having a licensed approach.

I know there's lots of IEEE standards that cover good practices, but they don't seem to be as adhered to as, say, ASME codes in the oil/gas industry.

Maybe there's a slow change already happening. I know controls engineer licenses have become more common and NCEES now offers a software curriculum.