Teaching software engineering with SimulES-W

This work presents an educational board and card game named SimulES-W, as a tool for teaching Software Engineering. It encompasses 5 years of evolution, in which the game Problems and Programmers was the fundamental source. SimulES-W innovates in three distinct areas: it is a web based game, it relies on a broad view of the software process and it is customizable for content. SimulES-W is supported by collaborative software that implements the SimulES board game. The paper describes the game, stresses its strong points, provides initial data on its use and discusses its future.