The past present and future of standards in software engineering

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Community: The collaboration, cooperation, and sharing of information among software engineering educators. Curriculum: The content and organization of degree programs and individual software engineering courses in other computing degrees. The chapter is organized by looking at these issues historically, in the present, and for the future.

The intended audience for this chapter is anyone interested in software engineering education who has not participated in the developments to the present time. The goal is to provide a summary background of how the discipline has evolved and pointers to key publications that are part of that history.

The problems of developing software were noticed as soon as significant software development activities began. This conference is noteworthy for the extent to which the range of topics currently recognized as central to software engineering were clearly identified even in this early effort.

Organization of software development activities was clearly understood, at least from a waterfall model perspective. Key software engineering problems such as scale and complexity were clearly recognized, as were difficulties in estimation, and even the potential for things like construction of software from components. A review of this material is helpful to make the point that software engineering has a core set of issues and problems that are stable over some extended period of time, and across very substantial technology changes.

On the other hand, this same review is striking in indicating how modest progress has been in addressing software engineering issues decisively. Although there is broad agreement on the need for solutions to the issues software engineering addresses, the question of whether software engineering should be a discipline has been a more divisive question. Almost 40 years after the NATO conference, computing professionals have not reached consensus on how to organize computing knowledge or the computing professions.

In academic discussions of the disciplines, the key issue for software engineering has been the relationship of software engineering to computer science.