Software Quality Assurance in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Program

Teaching Software Quality Assurance in an Undergraduate Software Engineering Program

industrial processes (often replacing human operators), and many business processes. Unfortunately, software quality assurance is often the poor relation in many organizations. Most developers are not aware of the high cost of inferior quality. At the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montréal, Canada, software quality assurance is taught in the lecture format within the software enginee...

Initiating an Undergraduate Program in Software Engineering

With the action by ABET to accredit undergraduate programs in software engineering, it is expected that many engineering schools in the U.S. will soon initiate such programs. The job market in computing continues to grow and there is much evidence of a demand for graduates who understand how to how to “engineer” software systems and products. From an international perspective, the U.S. is laggi...

Software quality engineering - testing, quality assurance, and quantifiable improvement

Undergraduate Curriculum in Software Engineering

m o d u l a r i t y , r e l i a b i l i t y , m a i n t a i n a b i l i t y , r e u s a b i l i t y , a n d e x t e n d i b i l i t y , a m o n g o t h e r s . T h i s l i s t g i v e s c r e d e n c e t o t h e c l a i m t h a t t h e d e s i g n o f A d a w a s i n t e n d e d t o s u p p o r t m o d e r n s o f t w a r e e n g i n e e r i n g c o n c e p t s a n d p r a c t i c e s a s w e u...

Developing an Undergraduate Software Engineering Degree

Panel Summary As those who have done it can attest, developing an undergraduate degree in software engineering is a daunting and challenging task, and there have been instances where a department has tried, but failed to get its program approved. A strong desire to develop a program in software engineering together with interested faculty may not be enough to build a credible degree, let alone ...