A Case Study in Software Product: Lines An Educational Experience

In order to attend the industry needs, it is necessary to provide more practical issues of real software development in the academic curricula. This paper describes an educational experience in a post-graduation course at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, involving software reuse. The course's goals were to provide the state-of-the-art of software development with reuse, and the state-of-the-practice developing the Software Product Line (SPL) approach based on a real project. Moreover, we describe the SPL process steps and the educational methodology applied, as well as the project's difficulties and lessons learned, along with possible improvements for the course extracted from students' feedback during the course and the project. We also expect that this work can be used as a reference material for other universities planning on teaching software reuse or SPL courses.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CSEE
• Authors: Liana Barachisio Lisboa, Leandro Marques Nascimento, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
• Keywords: CSEE 2008, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software Reuse, SPL Process Steps