Teaching Undergraduate Software Engineering Using Open Source Development Tools

Teaching Undergraduate Software Engineering Using Open Source Development Tools

Software engineering is a key topic in computing education. Many schools offer a projectoriented course, or multi-course sequence, to teach students both the theoretical concepts of software development as well as the practical aspects of developing software systems in a team environment. Typically, in these courses, students practice the principles of requirements analysis, project management,...

Open Source Software Engineering

The term Open Source Software (OSS) first appeared in 1998 [1] in an effort to change the popular understanding of what had to that point been called “free software” products like GNU/Linux, Apache, Perl and BIND. In the periods both immediately before and after the coining of the term, many insightful essays appeared both online and in print, attempting to better explain this novel approach to...

Teaching Software Engineering with Free/Libre Open Source Projects

One of the major problems in software engineering education is the involvement of students in real world software projects. Industry projects are a solution, but in many cases they are hard to find and student participation can be problematic due to cultural, familiarization and other practical reasons. The abundance of Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects is a neat solution, offe...

Open Source Software Development (OSSD) Based On Software Engineering

Guest Editorial Open-Source Software for Engineering Education: Pedagogical Strategies That Leverage Open-Source Tools

V AST numbers of students and other people interested in learning resources can now exploit learning infrastructures and learning designs on the Web. Even larger learning resources reside in universities' and organizations' intranets and Web-accessible e-learning systems. As the amount of learning content available on the Web continues to grow rapidly, it is increasingly important to define eff...