A Guide for Building the Knowledgebase for Software Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Professional Students

Abstract

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) provides generally accepted knowledge for the software engineering profession. The SWEBOK had been designed to guide the in-house developers and software contractors but the current trend is that it is being used by the innovators. Thus, the SWEBOK has very little guidance for the emerging role. The focus of the innovators will be to improve the business processes as well as study the business practice to learn the concealed requirements of the customer. This paper is an attempt to analyze the existing proposals on the SWEBOK contents, structure, and make a proposal on what kind of contents it should have, and how it should be structured so that the innovators as well as in-house and software contractors can have proper guidance and can benefit from it.