What is soft trend vs. hard trend? Talk about a specific software engineering technology, the soft trends and hard trends it relates or led to its emergence and development. Solution To highlight the difference in simple words \"Hard Trend is something that will happen in future and Soft Trend is something that might happen in future\".Hard Trends calculations and projections are based on some facts which are measurable, events or some objects but soft trends calculation and projections are based on facts that appears to be some events, measurable. In respect to Software engineering technology soft trends would be the broad characteristics of new system that is built like emergent requirement, autonomy of actions, the sociological characteristics of new people that practice software engineering and Hard trends would be the techincal aspects used in the building the system, the techincal directions which software engineering processes, method will take..