In general, no they should not because most of them don't actually do engineering of the code that they write. But some developers actually do approach the task

In general, no they should not because most of them don't actually do engineering of the code that they write. But some developers actually do approach the task like engineers and they definitely do deserve , the title for that. Devops is a movement that brings developers and sysadmins together and that is one sign that there may be real engineering being done rather than buggy code being flung over the transom to the Ops team. Engineers pay attention to design, do TDD, write acceptance tests, integrate pieces written in several best-of-breed languages rather than relying on the compiler and link editor for integration. If SEMAT gains traction then there will be a lot more real engineers in software and the people who use the title because it is cool will be forced out by a new generation of fizzbuzz type questions. http://semat.org/?page_id=28 http://semat.org/?page_id=28