Title :
Will the real software engineer please stand up?
Author_Institution :
Div. of Comput & Commun. Foundations, Nat. Sci. Found., Arlington, VA, USA
Abstract :
The article describes three significant and peculiar characteristics of software engineering which profoundly impact the way in which should think about software education: the effectiveness of current practice, the precipitous rate of change in the meaning of "software", and the gulf between software engineering research and practice.
Keywords :
computer science education; research and development; software engineering; software engineering education; software engineering research; Chemical analysis; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Production; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software testing; Software tools; Systems engineering education;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training, 2004. Proceedings. 17th Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2099-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSEE.2004.1276502