Criticism and Alternatives
Cem Kaner and Grady Booch have publicly stated that the document could be improved. Many claim that the document may not accurately reflect the community's view of software engineering and recognize the effort to try to define the profession. Notkin, Gorlick, and Shaw's report was also less than positive.
The ACM famously pulled out of the SWEBOK process due to concerns about the work being used to require licensure.
German scientists support that the SWEBOK regards sources which were published in English and is an accurate anglophone guide. Other versions, which include other authors, are available in French, Japanese, and Arabic.
Other efforts to define a body of knowledge for software engineering is the "Computing Curriculum Software Engineering (CCSE)", officially named Software Engineering 2004 (SE2004). The difference is that whereas SWEBOK defines the software engineering knowledge that practitioners should have after four years of practice, SE2004 defines the knowledge that an undergraduate software engineering student should possess upon graduation (including knowledge of mathematics, general engineering principles, and other related areas).
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