Software engineering from an engineering perspective : SWEBOK as a study object
Alain Abran, Kenza Meridji, José Javier Dolado · 2007
Software engineering, as a discipline, is not yet as mature as other engineering disciplines and it lacks criteria to assess, from an engineering perspective, the current content of its body of knowledge as embedded in the SWEBOK Guide. What is then the engineering knowledge that should be embedded within software engineering? Vincenti, in his book ‘What engineers know and how they know it’ has proposed a taxonomy of engineering knowledge types. To investigate software engineering from an engineering perspective, these Vincenti’s categories of engineering knowledge are used to identify relevant engineering criteria and their presence in SWEBOK.