The software assurance competency model: A roadmap to enhance individual professional capability

Author

Mead, Nancy R. ; Shoemaker, Dan

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 May 2013

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

128

Abstract

This paper describes a software assurance competency model that can be used by individual professionals to improve their software assurance skills. It can also be used by universities to align course content with skills needed in industry, and it can be used by industry to help employee professional growth as well as to screen prospective employees. The knowledge and skill areas in the competency model are based on the Master of Software Assurance reference curriculum that has been previously approved by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. The model is aligned with a similar effort by the IEEE Professional Activities Board to develop a competency model for software engineering practitioners.

Keywords

software development management; software quality; IEEE Computer Society; IEEE Professional Activities Board; Master of Software Assurance reference curriculum; course content; employee professional growth; employee screening; individual professional capability; software assurance competency model; software assurance skill; university; Capability maturity model; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Industries; Security; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2013 IEEE 26th Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1093-0175

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595243

Filename

6595243