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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Fri 31 May 2019 11:00 - 11:15 at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine - Empirical Studies of SE Education Chair(s): Sira Vegas

Software Engineering courses often emphasize teaching methodologies and concepts in small and controlled environments over teaching, say, maintenance aspects of full-fledged real software systems. This decision is partly justified due to the difficulty of bringing to the context of a classroom a real software project. The widespread presence of open source projects, however, is contributing to alleviating this problem. Several instructors have already adopted contributions to open source projects as part of their evaluation process, and these instructors reported many benefits, including the improvement on students’ technical and social skills. However, little is known about the students’ perceptions regarding the need to contribute to an open source project as part of a Software Engineering course. To better understand the students’ challenges, benefits, and attitudes, we conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with students who took these courses in five different Brazilian universities. We also enriched this data with an analysis of commits performed in the repositories that students contributed to. We observed that even though some instructors chose the open source projects to students to work themselves, some students and even the open source community participated in the process of choosing projects and tasks. Students’ contributions varied concerning both complexity (measured by the number of additions, deletions, and edited files) and diversity (measured regarding the different programming languages used). Among the benefits, students reported improving their technical skills and their self-confidence. Finally, some students found extremely important for instructors’ being involved with open source initiatives (extra-classroom).

Fri 31 May

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11:00 - 12:30
Empirical Studies of SE EducationPosters / Software Engineering Education and Training at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine
Chair(s): Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
11:00
15m
Talk
Training Software Engineers using Open-Source Software: The Students' PerspectiveSEETSEET Distinguished Paper Award
Software Engineering Education and Training
Gustavo Pinto UFPA, Clarice Moraes Ferreira Universidade Federal do Pará, Cleice Souza Instituto Federal do Pará, Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Paulo Meirelles Federal University of São Paulo
Pre-print
11:15
6m
Poster
An Empirical Study on Female Participation in Software Project Courses
Posters
Anh Nguyen Duc University College of Southeast Norway, Letizia Jaccheri Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Pekka Abrahamsson University of Jyväskylä
11:21
15m
Talk
Attitudes, Beliefs, and Development Data Concerning Agile Software Development PracticesSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Christoph Matthies Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Johannes Huegle Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Tobias Dürschmid Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Ralf Teusner Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Pre-print
11:36
6m
Poster
Comparing the Popularity of Testing Careers among Canadian, Chinese, and Indian Students
Posters
Luiz Fernando Capretz Western University, Pradeep Waychal COEP, Jingdong Jia Beihang University
11:42
10m
Talk
A Survey on Online Learning Preferences for Computer Science and ProgrammingSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Javier Escobar-Avila Florida State University, Deborah Venuti Florida State University, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
11:52
6m
Poster
Software engineering studies attractiveness for the highly educated women planning to change career in Finland
Posters
Sonja Hyrynsalmi University of Turku, Sami Hyrynsalmi Tampere University
11:58
32m
Talk
Author Panel DiscussionSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training