SDM - An Educational Game for Software Engineering

Software Engineering is an area of computer science that focuses on practical aspects of the software production. The Undergraduate courses of Computer Science have disciplines of Software Engineering, but they are usually taught in a theoretic way and with only a few implementation exercises using the learned techniques and tools. A practical approach for the concepts studied during the Software Engineering classes would help the student in understanding the reason for using the presented concepts. Due to that, we introduce Software Development Manager, a novel simulation game where the player owns a software development company that counts with the help of a team, which is administered by the player, to develop products desired by customers. The purpose of this game is to assist in learning the knowledge of Software Engineering in a way that takes advantage of the benefits of fun and entertainment.