Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia

TL;DR

This paper proposes establishing a dedicated software development career track in Indian CS & IT academia to enhance practical skills, aiming to improve software quality and graduate competence.

Contribution

It introduces a new career track focused on software development and suggests a contribution record measure to promote practical skills among Indian academics.

Findings

Proposed career track can improve practical software skills.

Adoption of new regulations can enhance graduate employability.

Focus on practice benefits Indian software industry.

Abstract

Many, but not all, Indian CS & IT academics tend to have a focus on theory and research. They do not give much importance to the practice of software development. This paper proposes an additional software development career track for Indian CS & IT academics different from the existing research oriented career track. A measure of software contribution record is suggested. It opines that adoption of such changes to academic regulations will result in significant improvement of software development skill set in Indian CS & IT academia which, in turn, will result in better software development skill set in Indian CS & IT graduates.