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Benchmarking the Software Engineering Undergraduate Program Curriculum at Jordan University of Science and Technology with the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (Software Engineering Knowledge Areas #1–5)

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Contribution: This paper evaluates the compliance of the Software Engineering Program (SWE-Curriculum) at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) with the first 5 of the 15 Software Engineering Knowledge Areas (SWE-KAs) of the SWEBOK-V3.0 of the IEEE Computer Society. This research is the first to measure the coverage of the SWE-KAs in any SWE-Curriculum.

Background: Although the SWE-Curriculum is accredited by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), it is essential to line up the said Curriculum with the IEEE view of Software Engineering (SWEBOK-V3.0).

Research Questions: (1) What is the gap in the coverage of the SWE-KAs #1–5 topics across the said SWE-Curriculum? (2) What can be done to eliminate that gap?

Methodology: This research was divided into three parts. This paper focused on SWE-KAs#1–5, and the second and third (P#2 and P#3) shall focus on SWE-KA#6–10 and SWE-KA#11–15, respectively. The coverage of SWE-KAs#1–5 was inspected across the SWE-Curriculum courses. The results are identified as either Fully Compliant (e.g., the SWE-KA is fully covered across one or more of the SWE-Curriculum courses), Highly Compliant (e.g., the SWE-KA is highly covered), Partially Compliant (e.g., the SWE-KA is partially covered), or Poorly Compliant (e.g., the SWE-KA is poorly covered).

Findings: The compliance was found as Fully Compliant in the cases of the Software Requirements, Software Design, and Software Testing SWE-KAs, while it was found as Partially Compliant in the cases of the Software Construction and Software Maintenance SWE-KAs.

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The author would like to thank Dr. Ahmed Shatnawi for his valuable input and careful proofreading of the final version of this paper. Also, he would like to thank Dr. M. Smadi and Dr. M. Hammad for their input to the early draft of this paper.

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Radaideh, M.A. (2021). Benchmarking the Software Engineering Undergraduate Program Curriculum at Jordan University of Science and Technology with the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (Software Engineering Knowledge Areas #1–5). In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Tinetti, F.G., Tran, QN. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_53

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