Attributes Contributing to Students’ Use of Quality Software Development Practices

G. Nel, Liezel Nel, Johannes Christoffel Cronje
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In 2001 the “McCracken group”, through a multi-institutional study, concluded that many students finishing their introductory programming courses could not program due to a lack of problem solving skills. In 2004 Lister established that students have a fragile grasp of skills to read and interpret code. Humphrey suggests that educators must shift their focus from the programs that the students create to the data of the processes the students use. This paper addresses the problem of poor performing students through an investigation of their quality appraisal techniques (QATs) and development processes. Firstly, a survey was conducted to determine the current software development practices used by a group of undergraduate Computer Science students. Numeric data collected revealed that the current practices used by the majority of students would not be sufficient to produce quality programs. Secondly, a case study was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the various factors that are likely to influence students’ intention to use QATs. Analysis of numeric data collected through a survey revealed that students’ intentions to use QATs are driven by ease of use, compatibility, usefulness, result demonstrability, subjective norm and career consequences. Thirdly, an experiment was conducted to determine students’ perceptions on the use of process measurement data to improve their current software development practices. Analysis of numeric and narrative data revealed that performance measurement data could provide students with useful information to adopt proper development practices.
有助于学生使用高质量软件开发实践的属性
2001年,“麦克拉肯小组”通过一项多机构研究得出结论,许多完成编程入门课程的学生由于缺乏解决问题的技能而无法编程。2004年,李斯特指出,学生对阅读和解释代码的技能掌握得很薄弱。汉弗莱建议,教育工作者必须将注意力从学生创建的程序转移到学生使用过程的数据上。本文通过对学生质量评估技术(qat)和发展过程的调查来解决表现不佳学生的问题。首先,进行了一项调查,以确定一组计算机科学本科生使用的当前软件开发实践。收集的数字数据显示,大多数学生目前使用的做法不足以产生高质量的课程。其次,通过案例研究,更深入地了解可能影响学生使用qat意愿的各种因素。通过一项调查收集的数字数据分析显示,学生使用qat的意图是由易用性、兼容性、实用性、结果可论证性、主观规范和职业后果驱动的。第三,进行了一项实验,以确定学生对使用过程测量数据来改进其当前软件开发实践的看法。对数字和叙述数据的分析表明,绩效测量数据可以为学生提供有用的信息,以采取适当的发展实践。
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