An ongoing OO software engineering measurement experiment

Author

Ramakrishnan, Sita ; Menzies, Tim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Dev., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

24-27 Jan 1996

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

165

Abstract

This paper reports on an ongoing software measurement experiment which has been set up to monitor and evaluate team based student projects building object-oriented software. In this experiment, students are building the same system, in two languages (Eiffel and Smalltalk). Our process, called the Software Assessment Through Ongoing Profile Sheets (SATOPS) is being used in a project management framework to provide: a more objective feedback to improve students´ learning; a method for measuring their understanding for grading purposes; and an instrument for making software engineering metrics measurements. We argue that SATOPS is the basis for reproducible software engineering experiments in a university environment

Keywords

Smalltalk; computer science education; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; project management; software development management; software metrics; Eiffel; SATOPS; Smalltalk; Software Assessment Through Ongoing Profile Sheets; object oriented languages; object-oriented software; project management; reproducible software engineering experiments; software engineering measurement experiment; software engineering metrics; student learning; student project monitoring; university; Education; Educational products; Feedback; Monitoring; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Project management; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering: Education and Practice, 1996. Proceedings. International Conference

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7379-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEEP.1996.533995

Filename

533995