A practical experiment in teaching software engineering metrics

Author

Thomas, Richard

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

24-27 Jan 1996

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

232

Abstract

Software metrics are acknowledged by both software engineering researchers and educators as being of great importance in improving the software development process. Unfortunately, the current practice in industry is to largely ignore metrics and work at an instinctive level. The best way of improving industry practice seems to be to indoctrinate current software engineering students into accepting metrics as a normal part of the software engineering process. An experiment conducted at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is presented that aims at introducing productivity measurement as an integral part of student software engineering project and assignment work

Keywords

computer science education; human resource management; software metrics; teaching; Queensland University of Technology; industry practice; practical experiment; productivity measurement; software development process; software engineering educators; software engineering metrics teaching; software engineering students; student software engineering assignment work; student software engineering project work; Australia; Computer errors; Education; Educational products; Educational programs; Engineering students; Error correction; Software engineering; Software metrics; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering: Education and Practice, 1996. Proceedings. International Conference

Conference_Location

Dunedin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7379-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEEP.1996.534004

Filename

534004