A client/server case study for software engineering students

Author

Butler, Shawn A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

22-24 Mar 1999

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

165

Abstract

A goal of the Studio course in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University is to bridge the gap between experience and academics. One way to transfer experience to young software engineers is through case studies designed to focus students on specific software engineering problems. This paper discusses my experience with developing a case study to improve students´ analytical capabilities and introduce the importance of considering maintenance and implementation issues in software design. The case study, developed as a classroom assignment, proved an effective tool to teach software engineering students that there are more things to consider than performance specifications

Keywords

client-server systems; computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; teaching; Carnegie Mellon University; Studio course; analytical capabilities; case study; classroom assignment; client/server systems; experience transfer; performance specifications; software design; software engineering students; software implementation issues; software maintenance; teaching; Bridges; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Design engineering; Maintenance engineering; Middleware; Performance analysis; Software architecture; Software engineering; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 1999. Proceedings. 12th Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0131-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.1999.755197

Filename

755197