An investigation of software engineering curricula

Achieving Balance in Software Engineering Curricula

We believe software engineering curricula has an added dimension; it is based on a dynamic and fast evolving discipline. Achieving balance is an issue that faces all curriculum designers. The complexity of the software process demands a pluralistic approach to systems development. This pluralism must also be reflected in the education and training of future software engineers. How can we integr...

Practice-Relevant Pedagogy for Mining Software Engineering Curricula Assets

An Historical Investigation of Graduate Software Engineering Curriculum

This article presents a concise history of the evolution of graduate software engineering curriculum over the decades and examines its apparent direction. Presented here are the cornerstones that shaped the foundations of what we as educators viewed as relevant and current over the years as a continuum of progress extending over two decades. The current impact of the SWECC and the SWEBOK projec...

An Investigation of an Open-Source Software Development Environment in a Software Engineering Graduate Course

A semester-long ethnography study was carried out to investigate project-based learning in a graduate software engineering course through the implementation of an Open-Source Software Development (OSSD) learning environment, which featured authentic projects, learning community, cognitive apprenticeship, and technology affordances. The study revealed that while the OSSD learning environment mot...

Systematic reviews in software engineering: An empirical investigation

0950-5849/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2012.09.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9376 2227; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. Zh Babar). Background: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have gained significant popularity among Software Engineering (SE) researchers since 2004. Several researchers have also been working on improving...