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Customers' Role in Teaching Distributed Software Development

Authors: Ivana Bosnic (University of Zagreb), Igor Cavrak (University of Zagreb), Mario Zagar (University of Zagreb), Rikard Land (former), Ivica Crnkovic
Source: 23rd Annual IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, IEEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 

Abstract

This paper describes different aspects of teaching distributed software development, regarding the types of project customers: industry and academia. These approaches enable students to be more engaged in real-world situations, by having customers from the industry, local or distributed customers in universities, distributed customers in software engineering contests or being involved in an ongoing project, thus simulating the company merging. The methods we describe are used in a distributed project-oriented course, which is jointly carried out by two universities from Sweden and Croatia. The paper presents our experiences of such projects being done during the course, the differences in each approach, issues observed and ways to solve them, in order to create a more engaging education for better-prepared engineers of tomorrow.
 

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Bosnic_2130:2010,
   author = {Ivana Bosnic and Igor Cavrak and Mario Zagar and Rikard Land and Ivica Crnkovic},
   title = {Customers' Role in Teaching Distributed Software Development},
   booktitle = {23rd Annual IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training},
   month = {March},
   year = {2010},
   publisher = {IEEE},
   url = {http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=2130},
}

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