Students Recognize Ambiguity in Software Design? A Multi-national, Multi-institutional Report. Proceeding of the 27th International Conference on Elements RDD Booch’s OOSE OMT OODPM Class x x x x x Attribute x x x x x Method x x x x x Collaboration x x x

Successful software engineering requires experience and ac-knowledgment of complexity, including that which leads de-signers to recognize ambiguity within the software design description itself. We report on a study of 21 post-secondary institutions from the USA, UK, Sweden, and New Zealand. First competency and graduating students as well as educa-tors were asked to perform a software design task. We found that as students go from rst competency to graduating se-niors they tend to recognize ambiguities in under-specied problems. Additionally, participants who recognized ambi-guity addressed more requirements of the design