Where does experience matter in software process education? An experience report

Abstract

In order to enhance the understanding of important concepts and strengthen the awareness of software process, we designed a special project-practicing course in Nanjing University as an attempt to solve typical issues in these courses (e.g., focusing on aspects of software process, participation, limited time in a regular semester, etc.). The course is composed of 6-hour lecture and 32-hour bidding game. Preliminary results indicated several advantages with this new education approach on process-specific practicing course, which we already reported on CSEE&T2013. Since this course has been delivered to students from school (less experiences) and industry (more experiences), we noticed students' different performances on this course. In this paper, we collected course results from six classes, based on a comprehensive analysis from 8 different aspects; we try to understand where “EXPERIENCE” impacts students' difference performance and benefit from the understanding to improve our education on software engineering.