Interaction factors in software development performance in distributed student teams in computer science

  • Authors:

  • Martha L. Hause;Vicki L. Almstrum;Mary Z. Last;M. R. Woodroffe

  • Affiliations:

  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;St. Edward's University, Austin, TX;The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This research in progress paper compares the characteristics of high and low performance distributed student teams doing software development in Computer Science. The distributed student teams were involved in a software development project that was part of a Computer Science course at two universities located in different countries.We developed a set of categories to examine the email communication of distributed student teams. This paper tracks the progression and changes in the categories coded for each team's communication throughout the project's timeline, particularly during key decision periods in the software development cycle.