Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective / quote 5 of 28
Code, copy, medium and process
Focusing on the computational aspects, several scholars have addressed the complex relationships with- in i) a software code, understood as a set of computer instructions; ii) a software copy, which is the embodiment of a set of instructions through a hard medium; iii) a medium, the hardware medium itself; iv) a process, which is the result of executing the software copy.