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Integrating tools and frameworks in undergraduate software engineering curriculum

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Christopher Fuhrman,

Roger Champagne,

Alain AprilAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '12: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 1195 - 1204

Published: 02 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

We share our experience over the last 10 years for finding, deploying and evaluating software engineering (SE) technologies in an undergraduate program at the ETS in Montreal, Canada. We identify challenges and propose strategies to integrate technologies into an SE curriculum. We demonstrate how technologies are integrated throughout our program, and provide details of the integration in two specific courses.

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ICSE '12: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering

June 2012

1657 pages

ISBN:9781467310673

General Chair:
Martin Glinz,
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Mauro Pezzè

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Köppe CRodin R(2013)Guided ExplorationProceedings of the 3rd Computer Science Education Research Conference on Computer Science Education Research10.5555/2541917.2541926(93-101)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2541917.2541926
Rajlich VNotkin DCheng BPohl K(2013)Teaching developer skills in the first software engineering courseProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering10.5555/2486788.2486940(1109-1116)Online publication date: 18-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2486788.2486940

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