Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Clarke, Florida International Univeristy; Debra Lee Davis, Florida International University; Raymond Chang Lau, Florida International University; Tariq M. King, Ultimate Software Group, Inc.

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Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at FIU. He has developed and taught several software engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in academia, and has also trained software professionals in industry. His research areas of interest include software testing, autonomic and cloud computing, model-driven software engineering, and computer science education. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE Computer Society. Page 24.1115.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Observations on Student Use of Tools in an Undergraduate

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica; Alexandra Martinez, Universidad de Costa Rica

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undergraduate and graduate versions of the SoftwareTesting course are very similar in their core contents and objectives, since one is not pre-requisite for the other.The main goal of the courses is to guide the students in the learning of the theoretical foun-dations and necessary skills for understanding and applying software testing processes, tech-niques, and activities within the context of software quality assurance.After completing the course, students are expected to be able to: • Understand and explain the fundamental concepts of software testing. • Identify best practices for software testing and quality. • Compare and apply different techniques, levels, and types of software testing. • Plan, manage and implement a software

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanmay Bhowmik, Mississippi State University; Nan Niu, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University

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Tracing: How Could We Train Our Students?AbstractAssisted requirements tracing (ART) skills are essential for new college graduates joining thesoftware industry as their initial assignments often involve substantial tracing-related activi-ties. Although studying human analysts in ART is an emerging research trend, how studentsmight behave differently from software professionals is yet to be investigated. In this paper,we compare the performances, processes, and strategies between students and software pro-fessionals in carrying out ART tasks for an unfamiliar system. We observe that both studentsand professionals performing ART activities generally follow a generic four-phase problemsolving process: define the problem, develop