Using LEGO to teach software interfaces and integration

Kurkovsky, Stan

doi:10.1145/3197091.3205831

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“…Furthermore, more LSP activities have been conducted in higher education contexts to teach SE concepts beyond the Scrum framework. Contributions like the ones performed by Kurkovsky et al [24][25][26][27] are very valuable because they provide innovative activities to work on certain SE concepts in depth. These were performed in the University of Connecticut (United States of America), mainly in the Advanced Software Engineering course.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite both contributions bring useful activities, they have a critical pitfall: the small size of the involved sample, which is around 25 students. Finally, [25,27] are limited to presenting LSP activities and do not report empirical data. On the one hand, [25] presents an LSP activity to work on component integration and software interface design, building an airplane based on four components.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the application of LSP in a wide range of areas, the Software Engineering (SE) field is not an exception as confirmed by several studies recently carried out on this field [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. These studies have emphasized the great usefulness of this methodology because it enhances the student's motivation, boosts a wide variety of soft skills, and reinforces the acquisition of numerous SE concepts.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…These studies have emphasized the great usefulness of this methodology because it enhances the student's motivation, boosts a wide variety of soft skills, and reinforces the acquisition of numerous SE concepts. However, many of these contributions are limited to describing LSP activities, and they do not report an empirical validation [25,27,29].…”

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confidence: 99%

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LEGO® Serious Play in Software Engineering Education

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Nowadays, it is mandatory to complement the traditional learning methods with active ones that enhance the student's motivation and facilitate the development of technical and soft competences. LEGO®Serious Play is an experiential methodology designed to enhance innovation and performance in the business world and it is fully aligned with these needs. Previous researches show that this methodology has great potential in engineering education, and specifically in software engineering education. This paper presents an original LEGO®Serious Play activity to teach in a playful and active way software engineering concepts such as life cycle models and software development activities, which can be extrapolated to other engineering fields. This activity was validated through a case study involving 242 computer science students and it was supported by quantitative and qualitative data gathered from a survey and a post-test. The results indicate that the students found this activity highly fun and motivating as well as very useful to learn about the addressed topics and develop soft skills.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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“…For example, a bridge building project has been reported in [22]; the project teaches students how to measure progress and manage change. Other examples are: allowing students to practice collaborative design, parallel development, and component integration [23].…”

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Learning Software Quality Assurance with Bricks

Trujillo

2021

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET)

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Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and Software Process Improvement (SPI) are topics of crucial importance for software engineers; however, teaching them in a lecture room comes with several limitations due to lack of practical experience. With that in mind, we created KUALI-Brick, a LEGO®-based activity that brings SQA and SPI concepts together applying them in order to successfully build a LEGO city. This handson activity has been carried out in a fourth-year Software Engineering course at the University of Canterbury, with current results showing high levels of fun, increased engagement and an improved learning experience. We present a step-by-step guide to replicate the activity as well as lessons learned after conducting the activity for three consecutive years. How is LEGO used in Software Engineering education?To find answers to the aforementioned question, we performed a literature review with a search run in four databases: Scopus, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library and Wiley Online Library. The search string was the following: 1KUALI: Nahuatl word meaning good, fine or appropriate.

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