A Universal Model of Software Engineering

This paper proposes a universal model that governs the general theory of software engineering and complies with three engineering principles, namely, repeatable, economic, and safety principle. The main idea is to create core components that serve as the basic building blocks to build working software components. Each working software component is made up of core component strings by algorithmically concatenating core components based on a predetermined encoding formula. Such a formulation process imitates the DNA doublestranded helices that make up cells and organs, while maintains a flat structural reference to the core components. These working software components can then grow systematically by splitting their component, mimicking the cell splitting process. Hence, they are interoperable, interchangeable, and standardizable through the common core components. This posits avoidance of efforts on study, analysis, and development of theories and implementation to support any extraneous software artifacts. The benefits of the proposed universal model are conducive toward longevity and unification of software engineering theory and practice.