Automatic code generation within student's software engineering projects

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the integration of research and new teaching strategies into computer science and engineering departments at universities and colleges related to the automatic code generation, automatic development tools and integrated environments within student software (software) engineering and research projects. A significant amount of current software engineering research is conducted within the context of computer science, computing and engineering departments or colleges. However, every computer department has its own experiences, successes or pitfalls in Software Engineering and software development teaching and student research integration, which would be useful to share and discuss with the education community. We will discuss our experiences and results from seven years of teaching Software EngineeringCoSc 470/471 and Projects in Computer Science CoSc 224 (PCS) in Computer Information Systems (CIS) diploma and Bachelor of Computer Information Systems (BCIS) degree programs at Okanagan College (OC), Universite Paris-Est Creteil (UPEC), France and almost 2 years of teaching at University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBC O). We suggest possible ways of integrating Software Engineering research and teaching strategies by using many different industrial software Engineering tools, development workbenches, frameworks and environments to automatize code generation and speed up student project development within student capstone projects into computer science departments at universities and colleges.