Paper Info
Title
Process Self-Assessment in an Educational Context
Abstract
This paper describes a studio in software engineering based on the delivery of a product within the framework of a defined process. The studio is a 3-credit fourth year elective course in computer engineering. Students have to compromise between the effort expended on the product and that expended on the process. The process based on the SEI CMM has been used in professional research labs and was supported by commercial CASE tools. The use of the process is formally assessed by a professional evaluator. A working product was obtained by the team that invested the least effort and were the more liberal regarding the process. They were prototype-oriented. The team that was truly process-oriented expended much more effort than expected and did not deliver an integrated product. The team with a mixed approach followed the proper process and delivered an integrated product, but expended a tremendous amount of effort. The students were unanimous in acclaiming the learning benefits of having the process formally assessed.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1007/BFb0017615
CSEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
process self-assessment,educational context,case tool,software engineering
Software Engineering Process Group,Personal software process,Package development process,Computer science,Requirements engineering,Software development process,Empirical process (process control model),Goal-Driven Software Development Process,Defined process,Process management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-57461-1
8
1.93
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pierre N Robillard156865.22
Jean Mayrand226138.67
Jean-Normand Drouin381.93