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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. Needing a licence to develop software... by Dwonis · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    That's what's going to happen. And it will be because of all of you lazy programmers out there. You know who you are.

    You're the ones who think that bug-free code comes from testing and debugging, rather from design.
    You're the ones who say "with today's processors, I can afford to waste resources here," not realizing that inefficiency accumulates.
    You're the ones who don't bother to make sure you're checking return codes properly, or checking them at all.
    You're the ones who spend more time programming and less time planning a large project.
    You're the ones who think there is such as thing as a "releasable hack", a "production-quality kludge."
    You're the ones who think open-source is immune to all this.

    You're the ones who will quickly dismiss what I'm saying, or nitpick me to death.
    I don't know why I bother.