Abstract:

The ongoing world situation provides a variety of challenges for planning, learning, working, and living thus imposing a non-stopping need for flexibility and adaptability. For students in the universities who are learning in a software engineering area, this is even more true. They should be able to find the intersection between theory and practice, and they have to be well-prepared in the given field to become good professionals. Foremost, higher education programs should come to the rescue here. They should provide methodologies and they should face the challenge of achieving a balance between the theory related to the industry demands, and the best practices to develop the required skills, knowledge, and competencies.

For many years now, process-oriented models have been used to accomplish software and IT services industry maturity. In this approach, we will present and describe in detail our methodology, positive experience, and results of implementing industry standards and software quality maturity models like CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification), TMMI (Test Maturity Model integration), Scrum, CERT-RMM (CERT Resilience Management Model), ISO 25065:2019, ISO 25000, and DevOps in the higher education. Good knowledge of them is so crucial. If students can understand the software development lifecycle, its related processes, and stakeholders, different aspects of teamwork, as well as the variety of organizational models and standards with their related advantages and implementation problems, then they will have enough competencies to distinguish one developer or a software engineer from what they address as “coders”. For this reason, we provide an experimental mapping to our set of courses to European e-competence frameworks (e-CF 16234) and asses students' preparedness for respective jobs profiles.

Keywords:

Software quality maturity models, CMMI, CMMC, TMMI, Scrum, CERT-RMM, software engineer competencies, software quality, ISO 25000, e-CF 16234.