Transitioning international software engineering standards to academia: Analyzing the results of the adoption of ISO/IEC 29110 in four Mexican universities.

• The paper provides an overview of ISO/IEC 29110 and MoProSoft. • The paper aims to analyze the differences between the software engineering Basic profile of ISO/IEC 29110 and the level 2 practices of the MoProSoft standard related to the software project management and software implementation processes. • The paper provides a comparison between the Basic profile of the ISO/IEC 29110 and the level 2 practices of MoProSoft in order to identify the reasons why a Software Development Center of a university should start with the implementation of a standard, such as the ISO/IEC 29110, targeted for organizations having up to 25 people, before the implementation of a standard, such as the MoProSoft standard, that is targeted at organizations having up to 50 people. • The paper highlights how the Basic profile of the ISO/IEC 29110 reinforce the education and training of students of universities curricula in Computer Science and Informatics and Software Engineering. Software standards, targeted for the software industry, were developed to contribute to the development of quality products within budget and schedule, by optimizing efforts and resources. For small companies, the largest percentage of software companies in Mexico, they are fundamental for their growth and survival. However, academic programs do not always match industry requirements. In previous studies, the curricula in Computer Science and Informatics, and Software Engineering, of 4 Mexican universities, were compared with two software industry standards: the MoProSoft standard, a Mexican standard designed for organizations having up to 50 people and the Basic profile of the ISO/IEC 29110 developed specifically for organizations having up to 25 people. The analysis of the academic programs showed a better coverage of ISO/IEC 29110 than MoProSoft. In this paper, these two standards are mapped to understand the results of the analysis in detail and provide recommendations regarding academic programs. The analysis provides an evidence that the processes of the Basic profile of ISO/IEC 29110 are better covered by the universities curricula because the processes provides the minimal set of practices to be performed while a project is executed from the beginning until the delivery of a software. In addition, this mapping presents a clear differentiation between these two standards that might help Software Development Centers to understand where to start in the implementation of one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]