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Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering: A Client-Oriented Open Source Software Projects Course

Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering: A Client-Oriented Open Source Software Projects Course

Bonnie K. MacKellar, Mihaela Sabin, Allen B. Tucker
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466658004|ISBN10: 1466658002|EISBN13: 9781466658011
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5800-4.ch019
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MacKellar, Bonnie K., et al. "Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering: A Client-Oriented Open Source Software Projects Course." Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills, edited by Liguo Yu, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 373-396. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5800-4.ch019

APA

MacKellar, B. K., Sabin, M., & Tucker, A. B. (2014). Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering: A Client-Oriented Open Source Software Projects Course. In L. Yu (Ed.), Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills (pp. 373-396). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5800-4.ch019

Chicago

MacKellar, Bonnie K., Mihaela Sabin, and Allen B. Tucker. "Bridging the Academia-Industry Gap in Software Engineering: A Client-Oriented Open Source Software Projects Course." In Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills, edited by Liguo Yu, 373-396. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5800-4.ch019

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Abstract

Too often, computer science programs offer a software engineering course that emphasizes concepts, principles, and practical techniques, but fails to engage students in real-world software experiences. The authors have developed an approach to teaching undergraduate software engineering courses that integrates client-oriented project development and open source development practice. They call this approach the Client-Oriented Open Source Software (CO-FOSS) model. The advantages of this approach are that students are involved directly with a client, nonprofits gain a useful software application, and the project is available as open source for other students or organizations to extend and adapt. This chapter describes the motivation, elaborates the approach, and presents the results in substantial detail. The process is agile and the development framework is transferrable to other one-semester software engineering courses in a wide range of institutions.

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