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W3 - Engineering Foundations of Software Engineering

 

Presenters:

Alain Abran, Université du Québec (alain.abran@etsmtl.ca)

 

Workshop description:

 

In spite of the millions of software professionals worldwide and the ubiquitous presence of software in our society, the management of software projects remains a challenge world wide with organizations delivering software projects late, over-budget and with less than desirable quality. Over the years, the field of software engineering has emerged as an approach to address these issues crucial to governments, to industry and to software users as well. 

 

Software engineering has only recently reached the status of a recognized profession, in parallel to the development of an international consensus on its body of knowledge – ISO TR 19759: Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - SWEBOK. However, software engineering when compared to mechanical and electrical engineering is still not as mature as other classical engineering fields. In particular, software engineering still lacks a recognized set of fundamental principles which can be taught in software engineering curriculum.

 

The proposed workshop will discuss issues related to the identification and teaching of the fundamentals of software engineering.

 

Participants to the workshop are requested to submit short position papers addressing related issues such as:

 

·         software engineering fundamental principles;

·         engineering types of knowledge that are relevant and applicable to software engineering;

·         identification of engineering criteria within the software engineering body of knowledge;

·         identification of engineering criteria addressed within the software engineering curriculum;

·         identification of gaps in software engineering principles;

·         identification of gap in SWEBOK, from an engineering perspective;

·         identification of the coverage of engineering principles within the IEEE-ACM software engineering curriculum;

·         teaching approaches to software engineering from an engineering approach;

·         etc.

 

The expected outcome of the workshop is the identification of research directions for further work to strengthen software engineering from an engineering perspective, and contributions to its evolution and teaching as a bona fide engineering discipline.

 

Maximum number of participants: 20

 

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