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A Report on the Teaching of Software Ecosystems in Software Engineering Discipline

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Emanuel F. Coutinho,

Leonardo O. Moreira,

Carla I. M. BezerraAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 130 - 139

https://doi.org/10.1145/3350768.3351302

Published: 23 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Software Engineering is a crucial discipline present in several undergraduate courses, often due to the incorporation in its curriculum and many times focusing only in technical artifacts analysis, which leads to restricting social and business aspects, and limiting a global vision. Software Ecosystem (SECO) is a collection of software products with some degree of symbiotic relationship, consisting of a set of actors working as a unit interacting with a market distributed between software and services, along with the relationships between these entities. Motivated by the SECO diffusion, the idea of incorporating its teaching in the Software Engineering discipline seems to be attractive. However, a drawback to SECO research is the lack of modeling support. Furthermore, there is a need for more examples of SECO models, mainly close to the students' reality. This work aims to report the teaching of SECO in the Software Engineering discipline. For this, a qualitative analysis of a questionnaire with students' answers was designed. As a result of this work, we concluded that adding the teaching of ECOS in the Software Engineering discipline provides a global view of the systems development, mainly social aspects and evolution.

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Pinheiro FCoutinho E(2024)Uma Abordagem Baseada em Rede de Fornecimento de Software para Análise da Evolução de Ecossistemas de SoftwareAnais Estendidos do XX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI 2024)10.5753/sbsi_estendido.2024.238718(138-153)Online publication date: 21-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsi_estendido.2024.238718

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A Report on the Teaching of Software Ecosystems in Software Engineering Discipline
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Software engineering education

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SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/3350768

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Pinheiro FCoutinho E(2024)Uma Abordagem Baseada em Rede de Fornecimento de Software para Análise da Evolução de Ecossistemas de SoftwareAnais Estendidos do XX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI 2024)10.5753/sbsi_estendido.2024.238718(138-153)Online publication date: 21-May-2024
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