Is software engineering training enough for software engineers?

• Most software engineering courses focus exclusively on the software development process, often referring to problems related to the complexity of software products and processes. In practice, however, many problems of a complex nature arise in which system engineering and other engineering disciplines are important in the development of systems. In such cases software engineers may have difficulty in coping with the entire problem, in the same way that engineers in other fields may have difficulty in understanding the software part. This suggests that the software engineering education of today is inadequate in certain respects. This paper presents a case study of a software engineering course and discusses the difficulty for computer science students to understand and to develop a system which also requires skills in engineering of a non-software nature. 

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Datorsystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Computer Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Computer science

Computer science education

Design engineering

Engineering management

Knowledge engineering

Management training

Programming

Software design

Software engineering

Systems engineering and theory

Computer programming

Computer software

Computer systems programming

Curricula

Education

Education computing

Engineering education

Engineers

Mathematical programming

Personnel training

Students

Systems engineering

Technical presentations

Systems engineering and theories

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