Bringing the Systems Analysis and Design Course into 21^st Century: A Case Study in Implementing Modern Software Engineering Principles

Author

Jones, Christopher G.

Author_Institution

Utah Valley State Univ., Orem, UT

fYear

2007

fDate

20-26 May 2007

Firstpage

744

Lastpage

747

Abstract

While today\´s IT students may have a theoretical knowledge of all the phases in the systems development lifecycle, they often have little exposure to software development core practices. Few are able to build a new system from scratch. This paper examines a pedagogical approach to modern software engineering based on "doing" systems development from day one. Course materials were produced by Agile methodology expert, Alistair Cockburn. Early results from an implementation of the experimental approach to the systems analysis and design course are examined.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; software engineering; systems analysis; teaching; pedagogical approach; software development; software engineering; systems analysis course; systems design course; systems development lifecycle; Computer science; Computer science education; Delay; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Information systems; Information technology; Programming; Software engineering; System analysis and design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2007. ICSE 2007. 29th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2828-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2007.22

Filename

4222638