An investigation of software engineering curricula

被引:53
作者
Kitchenham, B [1 ]
Budgen, D [1 ]
Brereton, P [1 ]
Woodall, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Keele, Dept Comp Sci, Keele ST5 5BG, Staffs, England
关键词
software engineering curricula; survey methods;
D O I
10.1016/j.jss.2004.03.016
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
We adapted a survey instrument developed by Timothy Lethbridge to assess the extent to which the education delivered by four UK universities matches the requirements of the software industry. We propose a survey methodology that we believe addresses the research question more appropriately than the one used by Lethbridge. In particular, we suggest that restricting the scope of the survey to address the question of whether the curricula for a specific university addressed the needs of its own students, allowed us to identify an appropriate target population. However, our own survey suffered from several problems. In particular the questions used in the survey are not ideal, and the response rate was poor. Although the poor response rate reduces the value of our results, Our Survey appears to confirm several of Lethbridge's observations with respect to the over-emphasis of mathematical topics and the under-emphasis on business topics. We also have a close agreement with respect to the relative importance of different software engineering topics. However the set of topics, that we found were taught far less than their importance would Suggest, were quite different from the topics identified by Lethbridge. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:325 / 335
页数:11
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