Where does experience matter in software process education? An experience report

In order to enhance the understanding of important concepts and strengthen the awareness of software process, we designed a special project-practicing course in Nanjing University as an attempt to solve typical issues in these courses (e.g., focusing on aspects of software process, participation, limited time in a regular semester, etc.). The course is composed of 6-hour lecture and 32-hour bidding game. Preliminary results indicated several advantages with this new education approach on process-specific practicing course, which we already reported on CSEE&T2013. Since this course has been delivered to students from school (less experiences) and industry (more experiences), we noticed students´ different performances on this course. In this paper, we collected course results from six classes, based on a comprehensive analysis from 8 different aspects; we try to understand where “EXPERIENCE” impacts students´ difference performance and benefit from the understanding to improve our education on software engineering.