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Introducing Tool-Supported Architecture Review into Software Design Education
2013 IEEE 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (CSEE&T), pp 70-79
01 Jan 2013
Abstract
While modularity is highly regarded as an important quality of software, it poses an educational dilemma: the true value of modularity is realized only as software evolves, but student homework, assignments and labs, once completed, seldom evolve. In addition, students seldom receive feedback regarding the modularity and evolvability of their designs. Prior work has shown that it is extremely easy for students and junior developers to introduce extra dependencies in their programs. In this paper, we report on a first experiment applying a tool-supported architecture review process in a software design class. To scientifically address this education problem, our first objective is to advance our understanding of why students make these modularity mistakes, and how the mistakes can be corrected. We propose tool-guided architecture review so that modularity problems in students' implementation can be revealed and their consequences can be assessed against possible change scenarios. Our pilot study shows that even students who understand the importance of modularity and have excellent programming skills may introduce additional harmful dependencies in their implementations. Furthermore, it is hard for them to detect the existence of these dependencies on their own. Our pilot study also showed that students need more formal training in architectural review to effectively detect and analyze these problems.
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- Title
- Introducing Tool-Supported Architecture Review into Software Design Education
- Creators
- Yuanfang Cai - Drexel UniversityRick Kazman - University of Hawaii SystemCiera Jaspan - Carnegie Mellon UniversityJonathan Aldrich - Carnegie Mellon University
- Contributors
- M Ardis (Editor)T Cowling (Editor)S Bohner (Editor)
- Publication Details
- 2013 IEEE 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (CSEE&T), pp 70-79
- Series
- Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- TUES-1140752 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000328540900008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84884916247
- Other Identifier
- 991019170498304721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Software Engineering
- Computer Science, Theory & Methods
- Engineering, Electrical & Electronic