A Computer Security Experience Scale for 4th-Year Software Engineers

A partition-based algorithm for clustering large-scale software systems

Clustering techniques are used to extract the structure of software for understanding, maintaining, and refactoring. In the literature, most of the proposed approaches for software clustering are divided into hierarchical algorithms and search-based techniques. In the former, clustering is a process of merging (splitting) similar (non-similar) clusters. These techniques suffered from the drawba...

XML for Software Engineers

Are software engineers true engineers?

Are software engineers engineers? Or more exactly: Can software engineers legitimately be called engineers? This is an ambiguous question. Its interpretation depends on the situation in which it is asked. It might be asked in a situation in which practice-oriented engineering disciplines have more chances to be sponsored publicly: In this case it would be the question if software engineering sh...

Systems Engineering for software Engineers

This paper describes how we have modified a software engineering stream within a computer science course to include broader concepts of systems engineering. We justify this inclusion by showing how many reported problems with large systems are not just software problems but relate to system issues such as hardware and operational processes. We describe what we mean by ‘systems engineering’ and ...

Bringing System Engineers and Software Engineers Together

For system development projects, the proportion of the budget allocated to software development has been continually increasing in response to demand for system flexibility and maintainability. As a result, many technical organizations started by mechanical and electrical engineers now find themselves awash with software engineers. As system engineers see it, software people have different ways...