Sounding Board

Discusses a student's experiences with a university's Software Academy.

According to recent estimates, computing and communications could account for 20 of energy usage globally by 2025.1 This trend shows no sign of slowing.

For software engineering research to increase its impact and steer our community toward a more successful future, it must foster context-driven research.

Pioneering educators discuss how they inject realism into global-software-engineering education.Topics: GSD, GSE, GSE-Ed, global software…

If measured by the number of published papers, defect prediction has become an important research field over the past decade, with many researchers…

To become more relevant to both researchers and practitioners, IEEE Software should refocus and become the first place software engineers turn to for…

We're living in a physical world that's moving at the speed of software.

Software engineers today must be lifelong learners or risk finding themselves out of a job, with totally obsolete skills to sell.

Changes in the applications software market promise increased opportunities for individual players.Topics: freelance development, niche…

The human aspects involved in the software development process are vital to a successful completion of a software project.

As the last standardization effort was done in 2004, the software engineering curriculum is currently being revised.

As the software industry has matured, the requirements process has had to cope with unanticipated shifts of power, increasing complexity of the…

Last century, it wasn't known if data miners could find structure within software projects.

Software development teams no longer live-or want to live-in a world of command and control.

Based on over 20 years of teaching and research experience, the author provides his assessment of software engineering education.

Technical debt is more than a metaphor: applying finance and accounting practices typical of other business obligations to technical debt can, in addition to…

Darwin's theory of natural selection, Maxwell's equations, the theory of demand and supply; almost all established academic disciplines place great emphasis…

The author provides, based on 20 years of research and industrial experience, his assessment of software engineering research.

Lists of things to look for in project candidates and cultures are often useless because they are too long and unprioritized.

Almost everyone agrees that there is a gender gap in computer science, where there are far too few females participating in the field.

Lateness is the most common form of software project failure.