Balancing software engineering education and industrial needs

Authors:
Ana M. Moreno;Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura;Fuensanta Medina-Dominguez;Laura Carvajal
Affiliations:
School of Computing, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain;Computer Science Department, Carlos III Technical University of Madrid, Avda. De la Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain;Computer Science Department, Carlos III Technical University of Madrid, Avda. De la Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain;School of Computing, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
Venue:
Journal of Systems and Software
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In the world of information and communications technologies the demand for professionals with software engineering skills grows at an exponential rate. On this ground, we have conducted a study to help both academia and the software industry form a picture of the relationship between the competences of recent graduates of undergraduate and graduate software engineering programmes and the tasks that these professionals are to perform as part of their jobs in industry. Thanks to this study, academia will be able to observe which skills demanded by industry the software engineering curricula do or do not cater for, and industry will be able to ascertain which tasks a recent software engineering programme graduate is well qualified to perform. The study focuses on the software engineering knowledge guidelines provided in SE2004 and GSwE2009, and the job profiles identified by Career Space.