A Case Study in Software Product: Lines An Educational Experience

Abstract

In order to attend the industry needs, it is necessary to provide more practical issues of real software development in the academic curricula. This paper describes an educational experience in a post-graduation course at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, involving software reuse. The course's goals were to provide the state-of-the-art of software development with reuse, and the state-of-the-practice developing the Software Product Line (SPL) approach based on a real project. Moreover, we describe the SPL process steps and the educational methodology applied, as well as the projectpsilas difficulties and lessons learned, along with possible improvements for the course extracted from studentspsila feedback during the course and the project. We also expect that this work can be used as a reference material for other universities planning on teaching software reuse or SPL courses.