The scale of China's software industry is not very large. Some software enterprises only adopt some software engineering ideas in software production, which is far from large-scale industrial production. The reasons are management system problems, market problems, policy problems, and incomplete and imperfect software engineering theory. Therefore, the research and application of software engineering, as well as the further development of China's software industry, need certain software engineering scientific and technical personnel with both theoretical foundation and research ability of software engineering and certain practical experience to promote it. The future of software engineering is bright.
After graduation, students majoring in software development can engage in office automation processing, computer installation and maintenance, web page production, computer network and professional server maintenance and development, dynamic business website development and management, software testing and development, and commodity trade of computer-related equipment.
At present, the software industry of all countries in the world is in a transitional stage from growth to maturity, while the software industry of China is in a period of rapid development. Therefore, the employment prospect of software development is very broad and there is a lot of room for development.