Context: It is common practice in academia to have students work with “toy” projects in
software engineering courses. One way to make such courses more realistic and reduce the …

Providing students with the professional, communication, and technical skills necessary to
contribute to an ongoing software project is critical, yet often difficult in higher education …

Many computer science programs have capstone experiences or project courses that allow
students to integrate knowledge from the full breadth of their major. Such capstone projects …

Context: It is common practice in academia to have students work with “toy” projects in
software engineering (SE) courses. One way to make such courses more realistic and …

Software architecture lies at the heart of system thinking skills for software. Teaching
software architecture requires contending with the problem of how to make the learning …

Software quality assurance and testing is a vital phase in the software development lifecycle,
oftentimes requiring a significant portion of the overall development budget. Providing …

We present the design goals that led us to develo** a distributed object-based secure file
system, Brave. Brave uses mutually authenticated object storage devices, SCARED, to store …

For the past several years, students in computer-science courses have been assigned work
on open-source project development. The literature is replete with examples. Yet an …

Software architecture design is a key component in software engineering. Teaching it
effectively requires instructors come up with challenging real world projects, in which …

Software Architecture remains a difficult topic to teach. This is because of the problem? s
complexity, and the integration of interpersonal and technical skills with knowledge from …