Educational trends in software engineering: a systematic review study

Although there is an updated knowledge's body in software engineering, even so the curricular guides must be updated periodically. This article presents a systematic review study, which addresses the need to provide suggestions regarding the issues that should be emphasized in the area of software engineering in the systems and computer engineering program at the Catholic University of Colombia. 20 themes were identified, presented in 855 selected studies and which are studied in 50 articles, at a minimum. The most studied topic is related to software design (91.5%), followed by software development in (58%), testing and software quality in (55.5%), open source software in (33.5%), software architecture (23%), web technologies (22%), agile methodologies (18.5%), software project management (16%), software development processes (12%)), C & C ++ programming language (11%), programming languages, object-oriented programming and graphical user interface (10%), Java programming language (9%), prototype-based software development in (8.5%), requirements, standards and computer-aided software engineering in (8%), mobile software and cloud services in a (7%). The results indicate the top 20 of the essential topics in a curriculum of the software engineering area.