Integrating Open Source Software into software engineering curriculum: Challenges in selecting projects

Gokhale, Swapna S.; Smith, Thérèse; McCartney, Robert

doi:10.1109/edurex.2012.6225697

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“…According to Gokhale et al (2012), it is very difficult for students to find appropriate projects, or even unlikely that they select projects with similar level of complexity across teams. Therefore, teachers should provide a pool of projects, from which students select a project of interest (Choice list category).…”

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“…However, two studies are devoted only to the process of selecting OS projects. The study reported by Gokhale et al (2012) is a work-in-progress that intends to develop a systematic methodology based on metrics to facilitate the selection. They train a predictive regression model and a classification model by using metrics collected from manually selected, previously used projects.…”

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Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

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Bittencourt

Chávez

2015

Computer Science Education

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Context: It is common practice in academia to have students work with "toy" projects in software engineering (SE) courses. One way to make such courses more realistic and reduce the gap between academic courses and industry needs is getting students involved in open source projects (OSP) with faculty supervision. Objective: This study aims to summarize the literature on how OSP have been used to facilitate students' learning of SE. Method: A systematic mapping study was undertaken by identifying, filtering and classifying primary studies using a predefined strategy. Results: 72 papers were selected and classified. The main results were: (a) most studies focused on comprehensive SE courses, although some dealt with specific areas; (b) the most prevalent approach was the traditional project method; (c) studies' general goals were: learning SE concepts and principles by using OSP, learning open source software or both; (d) most studies tried out ideas in regular courses within the curriculum; (e) in general, students had to work with predefined projects; (f) there was a balance between approaches where instructors had either inside control or no control on the activities performed by students; (g) when learning was assessed, software artefacts, reports and presentations were the main instruments used by teachers, while surveys were widely used for students' self-assessment; (h) most studies were published in the last seven years. Conclusions: The resulting map gives an overview of the existing initiatives in this context and shows gaps where further research can be pursued.

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Section: Fitting Osp Into the Academic Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of Study Objectives and Contributionsmentioning

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Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

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Bittencourt

Chávez

2015

Computer Science Education

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“…Another reason is that instructors should have prior knowledge of the codebase [21], which becomes infeasible if each student takes part in a different project. The work conducted by Gokhale et al [22] provides a four-step manual for integrating open-source projects in software engineering courses, addressing aspects such as code complexity, project compilation process, documentation quality, or project modularity. Ellis et al [23] proposed evaluation criteria for open-source projects in terms of viability of the project, approachability for the students, and suitability to the course objectives.…”

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“…Out of all of them, 7 (63.6%) were men and 4 (36.4%) were women. Participants were aged between 22 Five instructors were also involved in the study directing the students' work and in the adoption of the FIWARE open-source initiative in FYPs: two professors and three researchers/collaborating teachers from UPM. Four were men and one was a woman.…”

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Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study

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Although many courses in computer science and software engineering require students to work on practical assignments, these are usually toy projects that do not come close to real professional developments. As such, recent graduates often fail to meet industry expectations when they first enter the workforce. In view of the gap between graduates’ skills and industry expectations, several institutions have resorted to integrating open-source software development as part of their programs. In this pilot study, we report on the results of the contributions of eleven students to the FIWARE open-source project as part of their final year project. Our findings suggest that both teachers and students have a positive perception towards contributing to the FIWARE open-source initiative and that students increased their knowledge of technologies valued by the industry. We also found that this kind of project requires an additional initial effort for the students as well as for the instructor to monitor their progress. Consequently, it is important that the instructors have previous experience in FIWARE, as many of the students need help during the process.

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“…However, the initial effort can benefit learning activities across a series of courses, not just a single course offering. Several efforts have reported on approaches to FOSS project selection [9,18,36]. …”

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A Multi-Institutional Study of Learning via Student Involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects

Hislop

Ellis

Pulimood

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research

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This paper reports on a study of student opinion of the impact of participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) on motivation, computing learning, and major/career direction. The study builds on an existing body of work in student participation in HFOSS. Six institutions with a variety of profiles are involved in the study and the paper reports on quantitative analysis of Likert survey items. Results of Mann-Whitney U tests on Likert data are mixed. Positive results indicate that students perceived that participating in an HFOSS project made them more comfortable with computing and improved their perceived ability to maintain a project and interact with professionals. Negative results include a perceived decrease in perception of computing skills, which may result from an increased understanding of the complexity of developing a large, real-world project.

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Integrating Open Source Software into software engineering curriculum: Challenges in selecting projects

Cited by 9 publications

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Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Open source projects in software engineering education: a mapping study

Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry through Students’ Contributions to the FIWARE European Open-Source Initiative: A Pilot Study

A Multi-Institutional Study of Learning via Student Involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects

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