Measuring team activities in a process-oriented software engineering course

Author

Robillard, Pierre N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1998

fDate

22-25 Feb 1998

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

101

Abstract

The paper describes a software process that enables the measurements of team activities in a software engineering project course. Observed measurements are presented for three types of team behaviors: full team, sub team and individual. A software process is needed to guide team activities. The generic software process presented is based on IEEE standards and is derived from observing professionals and downsizing their process. It proposes some guidelines and specifies the content of five basic documents. Student team members are required to follow this process and record the time spent on each activity. Observations from these time logs are presented. Student behaviors are analyzed in terms of the time spent on various team activities and on various process activities. The concluding remarks outline salient features of a team oriented project course. This process is designed for teams of six students and can be studied in a regular, one semester session

Keywords

IEEE standards; computer science education; educational courses; project management; software engineering; teaching; IEEE standards; generic software process; process activities; process oriented software engineering course; professionals; software engineering project course; student behavior; student team members; team activities; team activity measurement; team behavior; team oriented project course; Collaborative software; Coordinate measuring machines; Education; Electrical capacitance tomography; Guidelines; Measurement standards; Process design; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education, 1998. Proceedings., 11th Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8326-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.1998.658304

Filename

658304