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Texas licenses software engineers, as do some Canadian provinces, and IIRC (from my SE ethics course) some other US states are implementing similar programs. ht
by coyotebush 13y ago
Texas licenses software engineers, as do some Canadian provinces, and IIRC (from my SE ethics course) some other US states are implementing similar programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professionalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professio...
- Silhouette 13y agoI appreciate that some places do treat the term "software engineer" rather more seriously, but unfortunately the fundamental problem remains: it is difficult to license someone to recognise their ability if you don't have some objective means of determining that ability first, and I don't think we do yet. The existing efforts, at least those I've seen before, seem to be more concerned with general professional ethics than any particular competence with developing software specifically.