A Systematic Mapping Study on Software Process Education

Software professionals often face trouble when developing software products as it is a highly dynamic, knowledge-intensive complex process. The success of the software process heavily depends on the people involved, among other factors, making their education and training an interesting topic for research. The purpose of this study is to structure and characterize the state of the practice on software process education to help identify best practices and find new challenges. To do so, authors conducted a systematic mapping study to identify primary studies in the existing literature related to software process education. The analysis of results helps clarify the general characteristics of the software process education and training initiatives, the lessons learned in previous research, and the future works proposed by the authors in previous research on software process education.