SWEBOS – The Software Engineering Body of Skills

Authors

  • Yvonne Sedelmaier
  • Dieter Landes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v5i1.4047

Keywords:

Software Engineering Education, Soft Skills in Software Engineering, Non-Technical Skills, Description of Competencies, SWEBOK

Abstract


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.

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Published

2015-02-11

How to Cite

Sedelmaier, Y., & Landes, D. (2015). SWEBOS – The Software Engineering Body of Skills. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 5(1), pp. 20–26. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v5i1.4047

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Papers

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