Wikipedia's software engineering article records that "the NCEES began offering a Professional Engineer exam for Software Engineering in 2013...NCEES ended the exam after April 2019 due to lack of participation. Mandatory licensing is currently still largely debated, and perceived as controversial." The same article notes the ACM and IEEE Computer Society examined licensing in the 1990s and concluded it was inappropriate for industrial practice, a conclusion the article says was not universally accepted.
What would resolve this A revival of the licensing exam with sustained participation, or a clear professional consensus statement from ACM/IEEE Computer Society settling whether licensure suits the field, neither of which exists yet.
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