Paper Info
Title
Read before you write
Abstract
This paper describes and advocates a focused approach to using inspections of software artifacts as an active learning technique in software engineering education. A central thesis is that one must "learn to read before they write" that is, you should read and study an existing software artifact, before you develop one. There is discussion of how software artifacts and supporting instructional materials from a Digital Home case study project can be used to support and guide software inspection exercises. These inspection exercises are designed to introduce students to realistic software engineering artifacts and involve them in rigorous examination of their contents. Instances of the use of software inspections to teach software engineering are described and analyzed: the experiences of students and instructors, what worked and what did not, and how this influenced the cases study project. The authors also outline a set of topics and courses in which software inspections might be used as a teaching tool throughout a computing curriculum.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CSEET.2011.5876108
CSEE&T
Keywords
Field
DocType
software artifact,cases study project,realistic software engineering artifact,software inspection,guide software inspection,digital home case study,inspection exercise,software engineering education,software engineering,existing software artifact,inspection,educational software,computer science education,programming,active learning
Software review,Personal software process,Software engineering,Computer science,Software peer review,Software project management,Software system,Software construction,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.52
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas B. Hilburn114336.41
Massood Towhidnejad24032.06
Salamah Salamah34110.98