Understanding the Gaps in Software Engineering Education from the Perspective of IT Leaders: A Field Study

Fernando Bona, Rafael Chanin, Nicolas Nascimento, Afonso Sales

2023

Abstract

Teaching software engineering is challenging as it is a field widely desired by the market, and it requires professionals with an increasing set of skills. There are gaps in this learning process perceived both by professionals from the academia and from the industry that need to be further investigated in order to find strategies to reconcile the expectations from both environments. In this sense, this study aims to investigate these gaps from the perspective of Information Technology (IT) team leaders. In order to do so, we chose a qualitative approach to absorb as much knowledge as possible from each interviewed leader by using a field study methodology. Among the results obtained, we identified the appropriate profile to become an IT leader, what IT leaders expect regarding the skills of IT novices, and how the academia and the industry could work to-gether to build an environment that better prepares these professional, according to the view of the interviewed leaders.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bona F., Chanin R., Nascimento N. and Sales A. (2023). Understanding the Gaps in Software Engineering Education from the Perspective of IT Leaders: A Field Study. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, SciTePress, pages 511-518. DOI: 10.5220/0011959100003470

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu23,
author={Fernando Bona and Rafael Chanin and Nicolas Nascimento and Afonso Sales},
title={Understanding the Gaps in Software Engineering Education from the Perspective of IT Leaders: A Field Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2023},
pages={511-518},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011959100003470},
isbn={978-989-758-641-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Understanding the Gaps in Software Engineering Education from the Perspective of IT Leaders: A Field Study
SN - 978-989-758-641-5
AU - Bona F.
AU - Chanin R.
AU - Nascimento N.
AU - Sales A.
PY - 2023
SP - 511
EP - 518
DO - 10.5220/0011959100003470
PB - SciTePress