Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age Software Education

Software Engineering is a multifaceted and expanding topic. It aims to provide theories, methods and tools to tackle the complexity of software systems, from development to maintenance. Its complexity is made even more severe today by rapidadvancesin tech

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Paola Inverardi Mehdi Jazayeri (Eds.)

Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age Software Education and Training Sessions at the International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2005 St. Louis, MO, USA, May 15-21, 2005 Revised Lectures

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Volume Editors Paola Inverardi University of L’Aquila Computer Science Department 67010 L’Aquila, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Mehdi Jazayeri University of Lugano and Technical University of Vienna E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006938014 CR Subject Classification (1998): K.3, K.4, D.2, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

Software Engineering is a multifaceted and expanding topic. It aims to provide theories, methods and tools to tackle the complexity of software systems, from development to maintenance. Its complexity is made even more severe today by rapid advances in technology, the pervasiveness of software in all areas of society, and the globalization of software development. The continuous expansion of the field presents the problem of how to keep up for practitioners. For educators, the key questions are how should software engineers be educated and what are