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Digital Home: A Case Study Approach to Teaching Software Engineering Concepts

Digital Home: A Case Study Approach to Teaching Software Engineering Concepts
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Author(s): Salamah Salamah (The University of Texas – El Paso, USA), Massood Towhidnejad (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)and Thomas Hilburn (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 16
Source title: Computer Systems and Software Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3923-0.ch051

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Abstract

While many Software Engineering (SE) and Computer Science (CS) textbooks make use of case studies to introduce difference concepts and methods, the case studies introduced by these texts focus on a specific life-development phase or a particular topic within software engineering object-oriented design and implementation or requirements analysis and specification. Moreover, these case studies usually do not come with instructor guidelines on how to adopt the introduced material to the instructor's teaching style or to the particular level of the class or students in the class. The DigitalHome Case Study aims at addressing these shortcomings by providing a comprehensive set of artifacts associated with the full software development life-cycle. The project provides an extensive set of case study modules with exercises for teaching different topics in software engineering and computer science, as well as guidance for instructors on how to use these case modules. In this chapter, the authors motivate the use of the case study approach in teaching SE and CS concepts. They provide a description of the DigitalHome case study and the associated artifacts and case modules. The authors also report on the use of the developed material.

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