Title :
Diversity of interaction in a quality assurance course
Author :
Ardis, Mark ; Dugas, Cheryl
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technol., Terre Haute, IN
Abstract :
All software engineering courses face a daunting task: how to recreate within the classroom the environment of software engineering as it is practiced. There are three major difficulties to overcome: providing the cultural environment of professional software engineering, providing opportunities for learning by observation and imitation, and providing opportunities for constructive feedback from teammates. Each of these difficulties can be addressed, but some creativity may be required to solve them within the traditional classroom setting
Keywords :
educational courses; quality assurance; software quality; professional software engineering; quality assurance course; software engineering courses; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer science; Quality assurance; Software design; Software engineering; Software performance; Software quality; Software testing; System testing; Quality assurance; Vygotsky; situated learning; software engineering; usability testing;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Indianopolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9077-6
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2005.1612028