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The software industry presents dissatisfaction in relation to the level of recently graduated professionals. Consequently, software companies end up investing in the training of these professionals in order to develop skills related to the software development process. This paper presents an experience report of an adaptation of industry training practices in a course of Software Engineering (SE)...
Over Several years, we observed that our students were sceptical of Software Engineering practices, because we did not convey the experience and demands of production quality software development. Assessment focused on features delivered, rather than imposing responsibility for longer term `technical debt'. Academics acting as 'uncertain' customers were rejected as malevolent and implausible. Student...
As continuous delivery and continuous integration practices become more prevalent in industry, the need for education in these areas grows. Introducing these topics introduces complexities due to the learning curve of the involved tools and the amount of time available for teaching these topics. Furthermore, there has been limited research into effective teaching practices for incorporating continuous...
Background: Several mobile app releases do not find their way to the end users. Our analysis of 11,514 releases across 917 open source mobile apps revealed that 44.3% of releases created in GitHub never shipped to the app store (market). Aims: We introduce "marketability" of open source mobile apps as a new release decision problem. Considering app stores as a complex system with unknown...
Context: In organizational psychology literature, Task Variety and Skill Variety are considered different aspects of work design. Albeit related to different aspects of the work, it is common to find strong correlations between these constructs. After applying the Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ) on a sample of 102 software professional, we found the similar correlations and conjectured that they were...
Background: Although there has been a significant amount of research focused on designing and conducting controlled experiments, few studies report how experienced experimental software engineering researchers actually design and conduct their studies. Aims: This study aimed to offer a practical perspective from their viewpoint regarding controlled experiment planning. Method: We collected data through...
Context. Member checking can be defined as a research phase performed during a qualitative research in which the researcher compares her interpretations and understanding obtained from the data analysis with the view-points of participants to increase accuracy and consistency of results. This is an important step for any qualitative research. However, considering a sample of 66 case studies developed...
Dependency-based software change impact analysis is the domain concerned with estimating the sets of artifacts impacted by a change to a related artifact. Research has shown that analysing the various class dependency types independently will never completely reveal the impact sets. Therefore, dependency types are combined to improve the precision of estimated when compared to impact sets. Software...
Context. Considering the importance of software testing to the development of high quality and reliable software systems, this paper aims to investigate how can work-related factors influence the motivation of software testers. Method. We applied a questionnaire that was developed using a previous theory of motivation and satisfaction of software engineers to conduct a survey-based study to explore...
Software systems have established themselves as the heart of business and everyday living, and as the pillar of the emerging global digital economy. This puts pressure on educational institutions to train people for the continuously evolving software industry, which puts additional demand for new PhDs and educators. While large universities and research centres have the required expertise and infrastructure...
This half-day workshop will demonstrate the use of a lottery-based simulation to teach students how to run an agile project by practicing the routine of daily meetings, coordination by mutual adjustment and tracking and reporting of progress. The objective of the simulation is twofold: to teach students the process' mechanics and provide them with insights about the implications on performance and...
Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling standard that has been commonly used in the software industry. However, students face difficulties while learning how to model complete and correct UML diagrams. One of the reasons is the way UML has been taught. In order to improve the effectiveness of learning it is necessary to employ methods in which the students actively take part in the learning...
Undergraduate programs in software engineering are relatively new. The first ABET accredited programs received accreditation in 2001. There are currently 31 ABET accredited software engineering programs worldwide with additional programs being added each year. In this session, panelists will discuss their experience starting new programs, developing curriculum, and navigating accreditation issues.
Software engineering (SE) educators are challenged to balance the scope and depth in their courses to train students in skills which will fulfill the ever-evolving industry needs. Capstone courses are a tool for educators to transfer hands-on experience into practical knowledge and skills of SE students. This paper describes the design of a Casptone course, at Lappeenranta University of Technology...
The Agile Software Factory (ASF) was created in the Department of Computer Science at Bowling Green State University nearly ten years ago to promote the use of agile methods, improve student education through service-learning opportunities, and to facilitate community engagement by handling the many software requests that regularly arrive in the department. In pursuit of these goals, the ASF has had...
One of the main challenges in teaching Software Engineering as an undergraduate course is making the need for software processes and documentation obvious. Armed with some knowledge of programming, students may feel inclined to skip any development phase not involving coding. This is most pronounced when dealing with the Requirements Engineering practices. In this paper, we describe a practical approach...
The University City of Buea in Cameroon – Africa has been named the Silicon Mountain of Africa due to the growing number of Software-based, technopreneurship activities within the city. The uniqueness in methodological approach used for educating and training graduates from major universities in this city remains undiagnosed, although its impact is already being felt internationally. This paper reports...
Recently, the requirements engineering (RE) community recognized the increasing need for understanding how industry perceives the jobs of requirements engineers and their most important qualifications. This study contributes to the community's research effort on this topic. Based on an analysis of RE job ads in 2015 from the Netherlands' three most popular online IT-job portals, we identified those...
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