Master of software engineering - a proposed curriculum for practitioners

It is well known that software development projects usually exceed both time and budget projections. Furthermore, many software systems do not meet expectedt performance, are difficult to modify and maintain, and often have unexpectedly short life ...

Computer science and engineering (CSE) departments in the nation's universities are the current targets of much criticism by software professionals. The common complaint is that the existing curricula do not relate to many of the most important problems ...

We propose a curriculum for a graduate professional degree in software engineering. After presenting the instructional objectives to be met by this curriculum, we present its underlying philosophy and assumptions. A number of suggestions are made for ...