An investigation of software engineering curricula
An investigation of software engineering curricula
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软件工程课程的调查
DOI：
10.1016/j.jss.2004.03.016
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2005
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Philip Woodall
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作者：
B. Kitchenham;D. Budgen;P. Brereton;Philip Woodall
我们采用了 Timothy Lethbridge 开发的调查工具来评估四所英国大学提供的教育与软件行业要求的匹配程度。我们提出了一种调查方法，我们认为该方法比莱斯布里奇使用的方法更能解决研究问题。特别是，我们建议限制调查范围，以解决特定大学的课程是否满足其学生需求的问题，使我们能够确定适当的目标人群。然而，我们自己的调查遇到了几个问题。特别是调查所用问题不理想，答复率较差。尽管糟糕的回应率降低了我们结果的价值，但我们的调查似乎证实了莱斯布里奇关于过度强调数学主题而低估商业主题的一些观察结果。我们对于不同软件工程主题的相对重要性也有着密切的共识。然而，我们发现所教授的主题集远低于其重要性所暗示的程度，与莱斯布里奇确定的主题有很大不同。
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.