Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge: 2004 version Swebok

In this Guide, the IEEE Computer Society establishes for the first time a baseline for the body of knowledge for the field of software engineering, and the work partially fulfills the Society's responsibility to promote the advancement of both theory and practice in this field. In so doing, the Society has been guided by the experience of disciplines with longer histories, but was not bound either by their problems or their solutions.