SWEBOS – The Software Engineering Body of Skills

The development of complex software systems requires a mixture of various technical and non-technical competencies. While some guidelines exist which technical knowledge is required to make a good software engineer, there is a lack of insight as to which non-technical or soft skills are necessary to...

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Main Authors: Yvonne Sedelmaier, Dieter Landes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2015-02-01
Series:International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP)
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Online Access:http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jep/article/view/4047
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Summary:The development of complex software systems requires a mixture of various technical and non-technical competencies. While some guidelines exist which technical knowledge is required to make a good software engineer, there is a lack of insight as to which non-technical or soft skills are necessary to master complex software projects. This paper proposes a body of skills (SWEBOS) for soft-ware engineering. The collection of necessary skills is developed on the basis of a clear, data-driven research design. The resulting required soft skills for software engineering are described precisely and semantically rich in a three-level structure. This approach guarantees that skills are not just characterized in a broad and general manner, but rather they are specifically adapted to the domain of software engineering.
ISSN:2192-4880