Using Software Project Courses to Integrate Education and Research: An Experience Report

Author

Koolmanojwong, Supannika ; Boehm, Barry

Author_Institution

Center for Syst. & Software Eng. (CSSE), Univ. of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

33

Abstract

At University of Southern California (USC), CSCI577ab is a graduate software engineering course that teaches best software engineering practices and allows students to apply the learned knowledge in developing real-client projects. The class is used as an experimental test-bed to deploy various research tools and approaches for validation of new methods and tools. Various research data have been collected as partial basis for twelve PhD dissertations. This paper reports how research and education are integrated via project experiments and how the results strengthen future educational experiences.

Keywords

computer science education; software engineering; educational experiences; software engineering course; software project courses; Engineering management; Open source software; Quality management; Risk analysis; Risk management; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software quality; Systems engineering education; Testing; Empirical Research; Software Engineering Class;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2009. CSEET '09. 22nd Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3431-2

Electronic_ISBN

1093-0175

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2009.25

Filename

4812671