Do students recognize ambiguity in software design? A multi-national, multi-institutional report Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3353652, abstract = {Successful software engineering requires experience and acknowledgment of complexity, including that which leads designers to recognize ambiguity within the software design description itself. We report on a study of 21 post-secondary institutions from the USA, UK, Sweden, and New Zealand. First competency and graduating students as well as educators were asked to perform a software design task. We found that as students go from first competency to graduating seniors they tend to recognize ambiguities in under-specified problems. Additionally, participants who recognized ambiguity addressed more requirements of the design.}, author = {Blaha, K. and Monge, A. and Sanders, D. and Simon, B. and Vandegrift, T.}, booktitle = {Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005. Proceedings. 27th International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3353652}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553613}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1553613}, doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553613}, journal = {Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005. Proceedings. 27th International Conference on}, keywords = {design, education, software, software-design}, pages = {615--616}, posted-at = {2008-09-29 21:28:22}, priority = {0}, title = {Do students recognize ambiguity in software design? A multi-national, multi-institutional report}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553613}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3353652 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3353652 N2 - Successful software engineering requires experience and acknowledgment of complexity, including that which leads designers to recognize ambiguity within the software design description itself. We report on a study of 21 post-secondary institutions from the USA, UK, Sweden, and New Zealand. First competency and graduating students as well as educators were asked to perform a software design task. We found that as students go from first competency to graduating seniors they tend to recognize ambiguities in under-specified problems. Additionally, participants who recognized ambiguity addressed more requirements of the design. JF - Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005. Proceedings. 27th International Conference on EP - 616 TI - Do students recognize ambiguity in software design? A multi-national, multi-institutional report T2 - Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005. Proceedings. 27th International Conference on SP - 615 KW - design KW - education KW - software KW - software-design AU - Blaha, K AU - Monge, A AU - Sanders, D AU - Simon, B AU - Vandegrift, T PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553613 ER -