Introducing students to professional software construction

2007· article· en· 6 citations· W3086619722 on OpenAlex· 10.1145/1269900.1268837

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Claude Opus 4.8OUT

genre: other

about Canada: no

confidence: medium

Experience report describing an undergraduate software construction and maintenance course; the object is teaching practice and student training for industry, not the research workforce or research practice.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT

genre: conceptual

about Canada: no

confidence: high

The paper describes a software-engineering course and teaching materials rather than research practice.

Grok 4.5OUT

genre: empirical

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confidence: high

Undergraduate software-construction course pedagogy; professional software training, not research workforce.

Abstract

It is widely accepted that there is more to software construction than basic programming skills. Professional software construction involves not only understanding some theoretical concepts, but also mastering appropriate tools and practices. In this paper, we present an undergraduate course in Software Construction and Maintenance , developed with the goal of introducing students to those key concepts, tools and practices. We first outline the content of that course, explaining how it fits within our undergraduate program. We then present a key element of that course-namely, its maintenance corpus along with its testing frameworks-used to concretely introduce students to various tools and practices, e.g., automatic test execution, build and configuration management, source code documentation, use of assertions, etc.

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Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Topic: Software Engineering Research
Field: Computer Science
Canadian institutions: Université du Québec à Montréal
Funders: Université du Québec à Montréal
Keywords: DocumentationComputer scienceSoftware engineeringKey (lock)SoftwareSoftware constructionSoftware developmentSoftware documentationSoftware maintenanceProgramming language
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