SWEBOK

I wasn’t familiar with all educational methods highlighted in this SWEBOK v4 update article. So, here I’ll explore them and visualize their recommended connection to software knowledge areas.

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge V4 is due to land in 2023. Here’s some quick thoughts on an article summarizing the V4 updates and their impact on education.

I realized that my Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) posts reference, but never define, the 15 key knowledge areas outlined by SWEBOK. I intent to fix that with this post.

I recently gave a presentation on the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge focused on road maps for software learning. This involves much philosophy on how we think about software. The conversation surfaced many crucial fundamental views that often go unstated. I’ve enumerated them here.

I’ve been wrestling with the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) to distill an intuitive mental image for software knowledge. Here is my latest attempt incorporating insights from previous visuals.

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) portrays the software lifecycle as a set of transforms. I realized that each transform creates an artifact, and these artifacts are key to connecting cross-cutting concerns into the lifecycle phases.

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) states that software engineering transforms problems stated in natural language to problems stated in electrical current. This transform view emphasizes the continuity of the design process and highlights intermediate artifacts.

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) defines the major categories of software knowledge. It even talks about relationships between topics here and there. However, the overall picture is never very clearly explored. I hope to remedy that.

The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) levels up our industry. It collects evidence-based standard practices that every developer is expected to know. This post will establish some background for SWEBOK, cover my high-level takeaways.