Title :
Current State of the Software Testing Education in North American Academia and Some Recommendations for the New Educators
Author :
Garousi, Vahid ; Mathur, Aditya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Abstract :
This article is a brief overview of the current state of the software testing education in the Canadian and American universities. In doing so, the authors hope to pinpoint the strengths, and areas for improvement and to encourage a systematic software testing curriculum development. We also present some recommendations for new software testing educators.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; program testing; American universities; Canadian universities; North American Academia; software testing education; systematic software testing curriculum development; Computer industry; Computer science; Computer science education; Curriculum development; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software quality; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2010 23rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7052-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSEET.2010.29
