Design and Evaluation of an Educational Software Process Simulation Environment and Associated Model

Author

Oh Navarro, E. ; Van Der Hoek, Andre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, California Univ., Irvine, CA

fYear

2005

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Simulation is an educational tool that is commonly used to teach processes that are infeasible to practice in the real world. Software process education is a domain that has not yet taken full advantage of the benefits of simulation. To address this, we have developed SimSE, an educational, interactive, graphical environment for building and simulating software engineering processes in a game-like setting. We detail the design of SimSE, present an initial simulation model of a waterfall process that we developed, and describe an experiment that we conducted to evaluate the educational potential of SimSE and its initial model

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; interactive systems; software engineering; teaching; SimSE; educational software process simulation environment; educational tool; game-like setting; graphical environment; interactive environment; software engineering process; software process education; teaching; waterfall process; Computational modeling; Computer displays; Computer simulation; Employee rights; Engineering management; Graphical user interfaces; Project management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education & Training, 18th Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2324-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2005.16

Filename

4698905