Software Engineering Curriculum: A systematic mapping study

Abstract

Software Engineering (SE) discipline has come a long way since the 1968 NATO conference when the term SE was first used. Lot of work has been done for developing and revising SE curriculum and body of knowledge (e.g. SE 2004, GSwE2009, SWEBOK efforts). Different universities are developing and revising SE program and curricula at graduate and undergraduate levels all over the world. Large number of SE curriculum related efforts are being published in conferences such as CSEET, FIE and REET etc. There is a need to see the state of the art of this abundant literature. In this paper, we report a systematic mapping study conducted to synthesize and aggregate the SE curriculum related reported efforts and to provide a broad overview of the area. Systematic mapping studies are performed to evaluate quantity and types of primary studies in an area of interest in an unbiased and systematic manner.