Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

The Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge ( SWEBOK ) is a document of the IEEE Computer Society. It structures the collective knowledge (English body of knowledge ) in the field of software technology and makes it available to the public.

History and Mission

The SWEBOK project has been launched by the IEEE societies and ACM in the years 1993-1998 in life, ACM withdrew during the project back. The project has to structure, within the area of software engineering the goal of providing state of the art, to unify and delineate over other disciplines. Also, the document should be the basis for the qualification and certification of computer scientists.

The project was carried out until 2004 in three phases in 1998, which set out the structure and content of the SWEBOK has been refined and validated. The interim results have been checked by experts worldwide a review process. For version 0.7 of the second phase of 378 experts were involved, whose qualification was occupied by publishing their bibliographic data.

The current version is 2004 ( Ironman ) before.

Knowledge Areas

The structure of the SWEBOK is based on the classification of Software Engineering in 10 knowledge areas (English Knowledge Areas, CA). These are:

As a 11 field of knowledge, the scientific stand related disciplines is listed:

  • Computer engineering: Technical computer science
  • Computer science: computer science
  • Management: Business Management
  • Mathematics: Mathematics
  • Project Management: Project Management
  • Quality Management: Quality Management
  • Software ergonomics: Software ergonomics
  • Systems engineering: Systems Engineering

Assessment

The attempt to create a cross- reference and factory software technology can not succeed without numerous criticisms. During the review phase, among others, the lack of depth and use as a basis for qualification and certification has been criticized.

Despite criticism, the project is sound academically and has established itself as a de facto standard.

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