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Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

Posted by michael on from the you-should-be-eating-dinner-instead-of-reading-this dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The IEEE has a project going to establish a Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. I'd recommend that all Slashdotters read this and send comments to this since this project could lead to the officially designating Software Engineers as a real Engineering discipline. That could then mean that licenses could be required to practice software development and that this could to regulation and other legal ramifications." On the surface this looks like a fairly boring document/process, but this is a major step forward - turning software engineering from an art into a science.

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  1. What about my MCSE? by alen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft says I'm a systems engineer. I studied long and hard for the exams. And then had to relearn almost everything for the real world. You wouldn't believe my surprise when I found out that in the enterprise people don't use NT boxes as routers and use third party software instead of NT backup and a tape drive on each server. But getting back to the point. How come I'm not considered a "real" engineer? I got my license from Microsoft. Like developers are real engineers anyway. All they do is click, drag and drop code in until they say it's ready. Then the patches come out.

  2. Software Engineering Code of Hygiene by imrdkl · · Score: 3, Funny
    • 1. Thou shalt not clothe thyself with stupid conference t-shirts.
    • 2. Thou shalt bathe.
    • 3. Thou shalt hold thy cube clean and pure.
    • 4. Thou shalt wash thy keyboard, and screen, occasionally.
    • 5. Thou shalt not allow the bottom of thy chair to collect undesirable, hardened objects.