SE curriculum design: methodologies, formal methods, and life cycle models. I. Methodologies and life cycle models

The ever-increasing level of interaction across the “border” between software engineering and information systems is evidence of substantive maturity and sustained effort to articulate these closely-related disciplines. As software engineering principles have matured and proven themselves, information systems developers have incorporated them in the analysis and design process. We anticipate that continued development and improvement of software engineering methods and tools enables developers to continually improve the software development effort, resulting in better software and greater client satisfaction