Walking through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?
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Date
2019
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IEEE
Abstract
Software engineering educators are continually challenged
by rapidly evolving concepts, technologies, and industry
demands. Due to the omnipresence of software in a digitalized
society, higher education institutions (HEIs) have to educate
the students such that they learn how to learn, and that they
are equipped with a profound basic knowledge and with latest
knowledge about modern software and system development.
Since industry demands change constantly, HEIs are challenged
in meeting such current and future demands in a timely manner.
This paper analyzes the current state of practice in software
engineering education. Specifically, we want to compare contemporary
education with industrial practice to understand if
frameworks, methods and practices for software and system
development taught at HEIs reflect industrial practice. For
this, we conducted an online survey and collected information
about 67 software engineering courses. Our findings show that
development approaches taught at HEIs quite closely reflect
industrial practice. We also found that the choice of what process
to teach is sometimes driven by the wish to make a course
successful. Especially when this happens for project courses, it
could be beneficial to put more emphasis on building learning
sequences with other courses.
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Keywords
Software development, Software process, Hybrid methods, Survey research, Education
Citation
Kuhrmann, M., Nakatumba-Nabende, J., Pfeiffer, R. H., Tell, P., Klünder, J., Conte, T., ... & Hebig, R. (2019, May). Walking through the method zoo: does higher education really meet software industry demands?. In 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) (pp. 1-11). IEEE.