Author, as appears in the article.: Ferre M; Garcia-Barroso C; Garcia-Famoso M; Sanchez D; Valls A

Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques

URV's Author/s: Ferré Bergadà, Maria / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / García Famoso, María Montserrat / García-Barroso Villalonga, Carlos / Sánchez Ruenes, David / Valls Mateu, Aïda

Keywords: Software design and development Project management Integrated project

Abstract: © 2013 IEEE. Software projects are amongst the most common professional activities of computer engineers. Gaining competences on the design and development of software projects is, however, a complex issue that cannot be tackled within a single subject. In this article, we detail the design and implementation of a teaching methodology that aims at providing a comprehensive simulation of the whole life cycle of software projects throughout the coordination of the practical exercises of subjects of different courses. The proposal consists in developing the same software project in consecutive courses under the perspective of the three main roles involved in the project development: designer, developer and director. In the second course, the students exercise the developer role in teams of 4 people under the supervision of a student of the fourth course, who acts as the director. The director has previously proposed a formal design of the project in the third course (designer role). This methodology has been successfully deployed for 4 years in the Computer Engineering Degree at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The results show an improvement of the skills and competences related to the three involved subjects, which include better programming quality, better team coordination and fulfilment of deadlines, as well as a much practical view of the director's role.

Thematic Areas: Linguística e literatura Interdisciplinar General engineering Ensino Engineering (miscellaneous) Engineering (all) Engenharias iv Education Educación Educação E-learning Computer science, interdisciplinary applications Ciência da computação

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: montse.garcia@urv.cat montse.garcia@urv.cat aida.valls@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat carlos.garciabarroso@urv.cat david.sanchez@urv.cat maria.ferre@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-9838-8896 0000-0002-9838-8896 0000-0003-3616-7809 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0001-7275-7887 0000-0003-2600-1362

Record's date: 2023-02-23

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9236630

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Revista Iberoamericana De Tecnologias Del Aprendizaje. 15 (4): 262-271

APA: Ferre M; Garcia-Barroso C; Garcia-Famoso M; Sanchez D; Valls A (2020). Comprehensive Simulation of a Software Project throughout Several Subjects. Revista Iberoamericana De Tecnologias Del Aprendizaje, 15(4), 262-271. DOI: 10.1109/RITA.2020.3033213

Article's DOI: 10.1109/RITA.2020.3033213

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications