A case study approach to teaching component based software engineering

Author

Parrish, Allen ; Dixon, Brandon ; Hale, David ; Hale, Joanne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alabama Univ., Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

fYear

2000

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

147

Abstract

The field of component-based software engineering (CBSE) is currently in a period of rapid growth and change. No longer is the field dominated by discussions of traditional kinds of source-code components, but the predominant view encompasses so-called "binary" components: components that adhere to industry standards and are shipped as "plug-ins" into an existing run-time architecture. Computer science and software engineering curricula have not yet caught up with this transition in providing a corpus of fundamentally sound concepts to support education within this discipline. In this paper, we describe our efforts to develop fundamentals-driven CBSE educational materials, as well as our efforts to integrate these materials into a traditional undergraduate computer science curriculum.

Keywords

computer science education; software engineering; software standards; subroutines; teaching; binary components; case study approach; component-based software engineering; fundamentals-driven educational materials; industry standards; plug-ins; runtime architecture; software engineering curricula; source-code components; teaching; undergraduate computer science curriculum; Code standards; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer science; Computer science education; Construction industry; Management information systems; Runtime; Shipbuilding industry; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education & Training, 2000. Proceedings. 13th Conference on

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0421-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.2000.827032

Filename

827032