The reflective practitioner perspective in software engineering education

The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in Software Engineering

The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in eXtreme Programming

This paper examines ways by which a reflective mode of thinking may improve eXtreme Programming (XP) practices. It describes the reflective practitioner perspective and suggests specific ways in which such an approach may be interwoven into XP practices. Specifically, the focus is placed on the construction of ladders of reflection. These ladders illustrate how one may increase the level of abs...

A Perspective on Software Engineering Education with Open Source Software

As the development and use of open source software (OSS) becomes prominent, the issue of its outreach in an educational context arises. The practices fundamental to software engineering, including those related to management, process, and workflow deliverables, are examined in light of OSS. Based on a pragmatic framework, the prospects of integrating OSS in a traditional software engineering cu...

A Reflective-Practice Based Approach for Developing Practitioner- Focused Software Engineering Curricula

Classroom software engineering teaching and industry needs have significantly diverged with emphases on: (a) the development of software from scratch rather than on integration, evolution, deployment on complex shared infrastructures (b) functional requirements alone (c) technical aspects alone rather than business-IT aligned perspectives (d) non-technical skills taught outside of the IT contex...

Reflective Software Engineering - From MOPS to AOSD

Reflective Programming has long been viewed as an elegant but academic subject that is of interest only to educators and researchers. The seminal work on Procedural Reflection by Brian Smith clearly articulated the benefits of allowing an executing program to have access to the underlying data structures and algorithms that govern its own computation [1]. The first implementation of the reflect...