As NZS ISO IEC 19759-2007 Software Engineering - Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)

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AS/NZS ISO/IEC 19759:2007ISO/IEC TR 19759:2005

Australian/New Zealand Standard

Software EngineeringGuide to theSoftware Engineering Body ofKnowledge (SWEBOK)

AS/NZS

ISO/IEC19759:2007


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AS/NZS ISO/IEC 19759:2007

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint TechnicalCommittee IT-015, Software and Systems Engineering. It was approved on behalfof the Council of Standards Australia on 3 November 2006 and on behalf of theCouncil of Standards New Zealand on 17 November 2006.This Standard was published on 30 January 2007.

The following are represented on Commit tee IT-015:

Australian Computer Society

Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association

Australian Society or Technical Communications

Australian Software Metrics Association

Engineers Australia/ACTS Joint Board in Software Engineering

Griffith University

National Association of Testing Authorities Australia

National ICT Austral iaNew Zealand Organisation for Quality

Software Quality Association, ACT

Software Quality Association, NSW

Systems Engineering Society of Australia

The University of Queenslands

University of Auckland, NZ

University of South Australia

University of Technology, Sydney

Vendor Interests, NZ

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This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 06509.


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Australian/New Zealand StandardSoftware EngineeringGuide to theSoftware Engineering Body ofKnowledge (SWEBOK)

First published as AS/NZS ISO/IEC 19759:2007.

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand CommitteeIT-015, Software and Systems Engineering.

The objective of this Standard is to provide software engineers and developers with a guide that

characterizes the boundaries of the software engineering discipline and provides topical access

to the literature supporting that discipline.

This Standard is identical with, and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC TR 19759:2005,

Software EngineeringGuide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) .

As this Standard is reproduced from an international standard, the following applies:

(a) Its number appears on the cover and title page while the international standard number

appears only on the cover.

(b) In the source text this Technical Report should read this Australian/New Zealand

Standard.

(c) A full point substitutes for a comma when referring to a decimal marker.


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INTRODUCTION

The purpose of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge is to provide a consensuallyvalidated characterization of the bounds of the software engineering discipline and to provide a topical accessto the Body of Knowledge supporting that discipline. The Body of Knowledge is subdivided into ten softwareengineering Knowledge Areas (KA) plus an additional chapter providing an overview of the Knowledge Areasof strongly related disciplines. The descriptions of the KAs are designed to discriminate among the variousimportant concepts, permitting readers to find their way quickly to subjects of interest. Upon finding a subject,readers are referred to key papers or book chapters selected because they succinctly present the knowledge.

An emphasis on engineering practice leads the Guide toward a strong relationship with the normativeliterature. Most of the computer science, information technology and software engineering literature providesinformation useful to software engineers, but a relatively small portion is normative. A normative documentprescribes what an engineer should do in a specified situation rather than providing information that might behelpful. The normative literature is validated by consensus formed among practitioners and is concentrated in

standards and related documents. From the beginning, the SWEBOK project was conceived as having astrong relationship to the normative literature of software engineering. The two major standards bodies forsoftware engineering (IEEE Computer Society Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee andISO/IEC JTC1/SC7) are represented in the project. Ultimately, it is hoped that software engineering practicestandards will contain principles directly traceable to the Guide.

The Guide is oriented toward a variety of audiences, all over the world. It aims to serve public and privateorganizations in need of a consistent view of software engineering for defining education and trainingrequirements, classifying jobs, developing performance evaluation policies or specifying softwaredevelopment tasks. It also addresses practicing, or managing, software engineers and the officials responsiblefor making public policy regarding licensing and professional guidelines. In addition, professional societies andeducators defining the certification rules, accreditation policies for university curricula, and guidelines forprofessional practice will benefit from the SWEBOK Guide, as well as the students learning the software

engineering profession and educators and trainers engaged in defining curricula and course content.


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AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND STANDARD

Software Engineering Guide to the Software EngineeringBody of Knowledge (SWEBOK)

1 Scope

This Technical Report characterizes the boundaries of the software engineering discipline and provides topicalaccess to the literature supporting that discipline.

2 Recommendations

As a type 3 Technical Report, this document does not make technical recommendations. The informationprovided is that contained in the following publication (reproduced on the following pages), which is adoptedas a Technical Report:

Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, 2004 Version, IEEE Computer Society.

3 Revision of the IEEE Computer Society publication

It has been agreed with the IEEE Computer Society that ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 will be consulted in the event of

any revision or amendment of this IEEE Computer Society publication. Consultation will be accomplished bythe existing Category A liaison relationship between SC7 and IEEE Computer Society.

4 Publication

The report of the IEEE Computer Society appears on the following pages.


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