• DocumentCode
    2350307
  • Title

    Current State of the Software Testing Education in North American Academia and Some Recommendations for the New Educators

  • Author

    Garousi, Vahid ; Mathur, Aditya

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    9-12 March 2010
  • Firstpage
    89
  • Lastpage
    96
  • Abstract
    This article is a brief overview of the current state of the software testing education in the Canadian and American universities. In doing so, the authors hope to pinpoint the strengths, and areas for improvement and to encourage a systematic software testing curriculum development. We also present some recommendations for new software testing educators.
  • Keywords
    computer science education; educational courses; program testing; American universities; Canadian universities; North American Academia; software testing education; systematic software testing curriculum development; Computer industry; Computer science; Computer science education; Curriculum development; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software quality; Software testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2010 23rd IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Pittsburgh, PA
  • ISSN
    1093-0175
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7052-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSEET.2010.29
  • Filename
    5463575