Use and evaluation of simulation for software process education: a case study
(2014) European Conference Software Engineering Education (ECSEE)- Abstract
- Software Engineering is an applied discipline and concepts
are difficult to grasp only at a theoretical level alone. In the context of a project management course, we introduced and evaluated the use of software process simulation (SPS) based games for improving students’ understanding of software development processes. The effects of the intervention were measured by evaluating the students’ arguments for choosing a particular development process. The arguments were assessed with the Evidence-Based Reasoning framework, which was extended to assess the strength of an argument. The results indicate that students generally have difficulty providing strong arguments for their choice of process models. Nevertheless, the assessment... (More) - Software Engineering is an applied discipline and concepts
are difficult to grasp only at a theoretical level alone. In the context of a project management course, we introduced and evaluated the use of software process simulation (SPS) based games for improving students’ understanding of software development processes. The effects of the intervention were measured by evaluating the students’ arguments for choosing a particular development process. The arguments were assessed with the Evidence-Based Reasoning framework, which was extended to assess the strength of an argument. The results indicate that students generally have difficulty providing strong arguments for their choice of process models. Nevertheless, the assessment indicates that the intervention of the SPS game had a positive impact on the students’ arguments. Even though the illustrated argument assessment approach can be used to provide formative feedback to students, its use is rather costly and cannot be considered a replacement for traditional assessments. (Less)
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- author
- Ali, Nauman bin and Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
- publishing date
- 2014
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Software process simulation, project management, argument evaluation
- conference name
- European Conference Software Engineering Education (ECSEE)
- conference location
- Seeon Monastery, Germany
- conference dates
- 2014-11-27 - 2014-11-28
- project
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
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- http://www.bth.se/fou/forskinfo.nsf/all/7e50f3ce88f17735c1257d56004919a4/$file/Use%20and%20evaluation%20of%20simulation.pdf
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