Report from the trenches: applying the seek to BSSE program development

Abstract

Absfracf -This paperfocuses on the program development process, and how the Computer & Information Science department utilized the urious program and professional requirements sources to develop a BSSE program proposal that is completely accreditable. The requirements sources referenced include the EC2000, CC2001. SEEK, SWEBOK, existing Computer Science courses, available faculty resources and the not-insignificant required university courses. Specifically, this paper describes the use of traceability matrices to map program requirementsfrom the SEEK, SWEBOK and other sources against the courses that form the core ofthe BSSE program design. The paper also includes a description of various tradeofls and program design rational used in the process.

Modelling competencies for computing education beyond 2020: a research based approach to defining competencies in the computing disciplines

“…Software testing is a well-documented mandatory topic in software engineering, and is routinely part of a tertiary education program in software engineering [17,39,69]. Software testing has significant cognitive (knowledge) components, such as Black-box test design, white-box test design, unit, integration, system, test design, etc..…”