Title :
A long and winding road (Progress on the road to a software engineering profession)
Author :
Thompson, J. Barrie
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Univ. of Sunderland, UK
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An evaluation of the current state of developments in the field of software engineering (SE) professionalism is presented including the effect of ACM withdrawing from the IEEE-CS/ACM Software Engineering Coordinating Committee (SWECC). An examination is made of two of the projects initiated by SWECC: that defining the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice and that providing a Guide to a Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. The successes and problems associated with each are highlighted. Details are presented of a project supported by the International Federation of Information Processing, concerned with the harmonisation of professional standards, which could now be very relevant to re-establishing progress on the road to a SE profession. Efforts undertaken to promote this work to the SE community are also reported. Finally overall conclusions and recommendations are given that could improve the situation in the future
Keywords :
professional aspects; software engineering; ACM; Guide to a Software Engineering Body of Knowledge; IEEE-CSIACM Software Engineering Coordinating Committee; International Federation of Information Processing; SE professionalism; SWECC; Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice; professional standards harmonisation; software engineering professionalism; Code standards; Design engineering; Ethics; Globalization; Information processing; Knowledge engineering; Licenses; Roads; Software engineering; Software standards;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2001. COMPSAC 2001. 25th Annual International
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1372-7
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.2001.960596
