Fincher, Sally and Petre, Marian and Tenenberg, Josh and Blaha, Ken and Bouvier, Dennis (2004) Cause for alarm?: A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs. Technical report. University of Kent, University of Kent, Canterbury (KAR id:14108)
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Abstract
This paper reports a multi-national, multi-institutional study to investigate Computer Science students' understanding of software design and software design criteria. Students were recruited at two levels: those termed 'first competency' programmers, and those completing their Bachelor degrees. The study, including participants from 21 institutions over the academic year 2003/4, aimed to examine students' ability to generate software designs, to elicit students' understanding and valuation of key design activities, and to examine whether students at different stages in their undergraduate education display different understanding of software design. Differences were found in participants' recognition of ambiguity in requirements; in their use of formal (and semi-formal) design representation and in their prioritisation of design criteria.
Item Type: | Reports and Papers (Technical report) |
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2008 18:01 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 09:48 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14108 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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