Software Process in the Classroom: The Capstone Project Experience

  • Authors:
  • David Umphress;T. Dean Hendrix;James H. Cross

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A process-oriented perspective on large student projects guides students in integrating end-to-end lifecycle skills and provides consistency of experience among projects. After conducting 49 capstone projects, the authors learned that they must cultivate a process culture; that agile processes provide a bridge from ad hoc course programming assignments to organized project work; process requires a suitable infrastructure of tools and process expertise and they should be written to focus learning.