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call for abstracts |
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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