Transferring Software Development Knowledge and Skills in the Academia: A Literature Review

There is a well-known gap between what is taught in the academia on software development and what the industry needs. Trying to deal with this gap the universities have been using several mechanisms to transfer software development knowledge and skills to future engineers. Although there is no clear recipe to do that, it seems to be a consensus that such transference should be done through practical activities, e.g. developing software projects during software engineering courses. These activities help students to assimilate, link and apply software engineering concepts, and contributes to reduce the mentioned gap. This article presents a survey of the strategies used by the universities to try and deal with this