Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]

Post by viraptor » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 4:36 AM UTC

rhythane wrote: post #84

This book actually makes some sense to me as a software engineer. We’ve all learned this at school, but they were just scattered pieces of knowledge. This book actually offers a way of systematic organization of useful knowledge in production. Content is actually not for learning, but for quick check and review. The organization might not be perfect, but really is a way of reflecting on our understanding in this fiel…

Post by shiroiushi » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 5:11 AM UTC

patmorgan23 wrote: post #71

rockemsockem wrote: post #63

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So I don't know about you, but I live in America where roads, electrical generation and transmission, water purification, and bridges are all in subpar shape. That's super broad and I think there are complex reasons why each of these has failed, but it's pretty clear that stagnation hasn't helped and has probably actively caused harm by letting incompetence become too common in these areas.

This is just not the case. The US has lots of infrastructure that needs repair or replacement, but there are very few areas that do not have clean water, or reliable electricity (Sans extreme weather which causes disruptions in every country), and roads and bridges are all safe to drive on (when was the last time you read about a bridge that collapsed from lack of maintenance?) The US has its issues, but it does actu…

Post by rockemsockem » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 5:23 AM UTC

mckn1ght wrote: post #73

rockemsockem wrote: post #64

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Why do you think such wrong things about civil and mechanical engineering. Tell me about all the on time and under budget civil/mechanical engineering projects that are happening. Do you think that just because they have physics to lean on that they can just like press solve and have accurate estimates spit out? Edit: I totally agree that more long-lived battle tested software toolchains and libraries would be great…

How do you know things wouldn’t be much much worse if there were no standards for being a civil/structural engineer or architect that have been refined over long periods of time? Imagine municipalities taking the lowest bids by far thrown out there by any rando that decided they can make a few bucks by welding together the supports for a bridge or designing a really interesting building that will just cave in on itse…

Post by globular-toast » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 6:30 AM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #35

There appears to be a lot of hate towards this in the comments (because it's not perfect?), but I feel strongly that we need explicit bodies of knowledge, along with certifications for having been trained on it. Every company I go to, the base of knowledge of all the engineers is a complete crapshoot. Most of them lack fundamental knowledge about software engineering. And they all lack fundamental knowledge about the…

Post by globular-toast » Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 6:59 AM UTC

jcarrico wrote: post #41

miffy900 wrote: post #27

So at the start of each chapter, the book has a table of abbreviations and their definitions, called 'Acronyms'. To whoever wrote or edited the book: please lookup the definition of the word 'acronym': "an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. NASA)." Not all of the abbreviations listed are acronyms! Most are just plain old initialisms. Since when has anyone ever t…

From Merriam Webster: a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism It appears the meaning of the word has changed over time.