Learning Software Engineering Research Articles

WITHDRAWN: Remote cloud classroom based on FPGA-based high-performance algorithms

Abstract Distributed computing offers an incredible variety of quick, flexible delivery of assets following the interests of customers, expanding the classification data to provide and prepare essentials. The rapid development of its huge interest in this innovation, and in many applications, including government, business, and the order has been accepted. At the same time, the complexity of the material helps to understand the student computer science and related topics by eliminating regional requirements, improving refinement, and rewarding experience to display computer science and related topics to Cloud. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is used by accelerating computationally expensive applications. Low power utilization drawn from industry and academia are important considerations. FPGA is the base attraction towards the treatment of intangible assets and their distributed computing circles reconfigurability of the causes and adaptability in critical mode. The basis for most universities are the use of under-utilized assets, adjusted asset utilization, happen to have flexible and innovative requirements. A new approach is introduced to software engineering, virtual or Open Distance Learning (ODL) data, and the University of Understudies e-learning Phase. This structure is calculated by measuring dispersion and tends to (cloud virtual frame-based study hall) administration layers. The basic part (in coordination with the cloud and software engineering process) is to develop a cloud program open academic expectations separation learning atmosphere. Finally, it is the way to achieve the structure proposed.

Consideration of Educational Tools and Methods of Software Engineering Education for non-CSE Students

In the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), one of the important issues is to educate software engineering not only to computer sience and engineering (CSE) students who specialize in information but also to non-CSE students who major in humanities and society and so on. It is not only for gaining a job in developing and operating digital technology and systems, but also for solving many social problems such as sustainable development goals (SDGs) and also leading to ethics such as human happiness. It is necessary to combine all kinds of knowledge such as science, engineering, humanities, social science, etc. in order to solve complex social problems. Students majoring in humanities and society do not have enough knowledge and skills in engineering like first year student, so they need educational tools and methods to learn software engineering smoothly. In this case study, we conducted to combine the Learning Management System (LMS) of communication function which is a share tool by digital approach and Idea-sketching for idea generation by analog approach such as pen and paper. The classes for humanities and social sience students who are not good at computer operation have found that they learn smoothly. As contribution of this study, it suggested a possibility effective as an educational tools and methods for first year students majoring in computer science as well as students majoring humanities and social science.

Designing for learning during collaborative projects online: tools and takeaways

PurposeIn response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, many universities have transitioned to online instruction. With learning promising to be online, at least in part, for the near future, instructors may be thinking of providing online collaborative learning opportunities to their students who are increasingly isolated from their peers because of social distancing guidelines. This paper aims to provide design recommendations for online collaborative project-based learning exercises based on this research in a software engineering course at the university level.Design/methodology/approachThrough joint work between learning scientists, course instructors and software engineering practitioners, instructional design best practices of alignment between the context of the learners, the learning objectives, the task and the assessment are actualized in the design of collaborative programming projects for supporting learning. The design, first segments a short real-time collaborative exercise into tasks, each with a problem-solving phase where students participate in collaborative programming, and a reflection phase for reflecting on what they learned in the task. Within these phases, a role-assignment paradigm scaffolds collaboration by assigning groups of four students to four complementary roles that rotate after each task.FindingsBy aligning each task with granular learning objectives, significant pre- to post-test learning from the exercise as well as each task is observed.Originality/valueThe roles used in the paradigm discourage divide-and-conquer tendencies often associated with collaborative projects. By requiring students to discuss conflicting ideas to arrive at a consensus implementation, their ideas are made explicit, thus providing opportunities for clarifying misconceptions through discussion and learning from the collaboration.

Design science research for learning software engineering and computational thinking: Four cases

AbstractThis study proposes design science research (DSR) as a relevant framework for computational thinking, software engineering, and science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics integration in higher education. We present four concrete case examples, where DSR has been applied in projects that consist of interdisciplinary teams, which learn by designing solutions for pressing real‐world problems. Our results show that DSR is a potent framework for learning to tackle pressing and wicked problems, and connecting technology projects with research methodology and knowledge from other fields. Our results also show multiple learning gains, including creativity, communication, critical thinking and collaboration. Based on our case analysis, we recommend more extensive use of DSR in future technology curricula.

Ant Lion Optimizer: A Comprehensive Survey of Its Variants and Applications

This paper introduces a comprehensive overview of the Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO). ALO is a novel metaheuristic swarm-based approach introduced by Mirjalili in 2015 to emulate the hunting behavior of ant lions in nature life. The review is highlighted the applications that are utilized ALO algorithm to solve various optimization problems. In ALO, the best solution is determined to enhance the performance of the functional and efficient during the optimization process by finding the minimum or maximum values to solve a certain problem. Metaheuristic algorithms have become the focus of research due to introduce of decision-making and asses the benefits in solving various optimization problems. Also, a review of ALO variants is presented in this paper such as binary, modification, hybridization, enhanced, and others. The classifications of the ALO’s applications include the benchmark functions, machine learning applications, networks applications, engineering applications, software engineering, and Image processing. Finally, According to the reviewed papers published in the literature, the ALO algorithm is mostly utilized in solving various optimization problems. Presenting an overview and reviewing the ALO applications are the main aims of this review paper.

Factors Influencing Computing Students’ Readiness to Online Learning for Understanding Software Engineering Foundations in Saudi Arabia

The spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has enforced most universities/institutions over the world to transform their educational models (face-to-face and blended) bearing in mind the online educational environments as a temporary substitute. Consequently, all universities/institutions in Saudi Arabia have requested their students to continue the learning process using online environments. This transition has provided an opportunity to deeply investigate possible challenges as well as factors that influence the adoption of online learning as a future educational model for undergraduate students. This research measures the current undergraduate students’ readiness for online learning and investigates factors that influence their level of readiness. Firstly, the research proposes the adoption of a validated multidimensional instrument to measure under-graduate students’ readiness for online learning in different universities. Secondly, the research elaborates the findings by an in-depth study that highlights the main obstacles that hinder computing students’ readiness to learn Software Engineering (SE) foundations using online learning. The research adopts survey research to measure students’ readiness and analyzes the data to extract the readiness levels of different dimensions of the adopted instrument. Furthermore, interviews were conducted to specify the influential factors on computing students’ readiness levels regarding learning SE foundations. Results show that students’ readiness level for online learning is within the acceptable range while some improvements are needed. Furthermore, the study found that students’ cognition, willingness, ignorance, and the amount of assistant and help they receive play a significant role in the success/failure of the adoption of learning SE foundations through online environment.

Architecture Description Language – Systematic Literature Review

increase numbers and complexity of software development requires that learners of software engineering and software architecture or software architects who do not have sufficient practical experience must have the skills and abilities to perform their jobs. But there is a gap between academia and practical so the question why does not use one of the architecture description languages in teaching and learn software engineering and software architecture to fill this gap? The objective of this study to classification ADLs according to their domain, domain specific or general purpose languages, doing these systematic literature review flowing the steps from Ketchenham. As the result we find that most ADLs are Domain Specific ADLs (Aviation Systems, Distribution Systems, Mobile Systems, Product Lines …etc. ) none of these ADLs is used in the field of software architecture education, but most intended to deal with experts in the field, except general purpose ADLs, like ACME, which we make as start point to design Arabic ADL, so as to enrich Arabic content, also to be as helping language in teaching Software Architecture course, because most of ADLs need experience and high level of understanding to use, moreover, when student think and design with same language subject more understandable. So using software architecture description languages in educating purpose, help on understanding high level of abstraction of software architecture and software engineering courses, there are some studies that aimed to reduce the complexity of these courses using different methodologies and approaches, but none of them using architecture description languages as helping tool. So the use of architecture description languages is helpful in teaching software architecture and software engineering courses.

Comparative Study of The Performance of Various Classifiers in Labeling Non-Functional Requirements

Software systems are to be developed based on expectations of customers. These expectations are expressed using natural languages. To design a software meeting the needs of the customer and the stakeholders, the intentions, feedbacks and reviews are to be understood accurately and without ambiguity. These textual inputs often contain inaccuracies, contradictions and are seldom given in a well-structured form. The issues mentioned in the previous thought frequently result in the program not satisfying the expectation of the stakeholders. In particular, for non-functional requirements, clients rarely emphasize these specifications as much as they might be justified. Identifying, classifying and reconciling the requirements is one of the main duty of the System Analyst, which task, without using a proper tool, can be very demanding and time-consuming. Tools which support text processing are expected to improve the accuracy of identification and classification of requirements even in an unstructured set of inputs. System Analysts can use them also in document archeology tasks where many documents, regulations, standards, etc. have to be processed. Methods elaborated in natural language processing and machine learning offer a solid basis, however, their usability and the possibility to improve the performance utilizing the specific knowledge from the domain of the software engineering are to be examined thoroughly. In this paper, we present the results of our work adapting natural language processing and machine learning methods for handling and transforming textual inputs of software development. The major contribution of our work is providing a comparison of the performance and applicability of the state-of-the-art techniques used in natural language processing and machine learning in software engineering. Based on the results of our experiments, tools can be designed which can support System Analysts working on textual inputs.

An experiment in blended learning: higher education without lectures

This paper chronicles a 10-year introduction of blended learning in software engineering at a leading technological university, with a longstanding tradition of technology-enabled teaching and learning, and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Hence, both teachers and students were familiar with the idea of online courses. Despite this the longitudinal experiment did not proceed as could be expected. Though few technical problems, it required behavioural changes from teachers and learners, thus unearthing a host of sio-technical issues, challenges, and conundrums. Indeed, education is a changing journey, not a prescribed destination, where learners, teachers, and administrators must reinvent themselves to harness the positive in this disruptive innovation of blended learning - closely related to flipped classroom - which combines eLearning with face-to-face and peer, interactions in problem-based learning. Blended learning does not necessarily lead to cheaper and better delivery outcomes, but it makes higher education more customisable to different learning styles and hence more accessible.

An experiment in blended learning: higher education without lectures

This paper chronicles a 10-year introduction of blended learning in software engineering at a leading technological university, with a longstanding tradition of technology-enabled teaching and learning, and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Hence, both teachers and students were familiar with the idea of online courses. Despite this the longitudinal experiment did not proceed as could be expected. Though few technical problems, it required behavioural changes from teachers and learners, thus unearthing a host of sio-technical issues, challenges, and conundrums. Indeed, education is a changing journey, not a prescribed destination, where learners, teachers, and administrators must reinvent themselves to harness the positive in this disruptive innovation of blended learning – closely related to flipped classroom – which combines eLearning with face-to-face and peer, interactions in problem-based learning. Blended learning does not necessarily lead to cheaper and better delivery outcomes, but it makes higher education more customisable to different learning styles and hence more accessible.

Impacts of a flipped classroom with a smart learning diagnosis system on students' learning performance, perception, and problem solving ability in a software engineering course

In recent years, many institutions have announced the significance of software development for countries, societies, and individuals. In developing software, various unpredictable problems are often encountered, especially in developing large-scale and complex software. To reduce the possibility of these problems occurring, it is important for students to apply software engineering technology to scientifically define the criteria, models, and procedures needed in the software development process. Therefore, it is important to cultivate students to learn software engineering concepts and technologies. However, since the course duration is limited by the semester, most teachers can only conduct a teacher-centered learning environment to teach theoretical concepts to students. Most students cannot achieve high-order thinking skills and apply software engineering technology to solve practical problems after learning in this environment. As mentioned above, the aim of this study is to apply an innovative pedagogy, called a flipped classroom, to conduct a learner-centered learning environment in a software engineering course. Moreover, a smart learning diagnosis system was developed to support this pedagogy in this course. An experiment was conducted on a software engineering course at a university in Taiwan to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The students in the experimental group learned with the flipped-classroom learning approach, while the students in the control group learned with the traditional-classroom learning approach. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the traditional-classroom learning approach, the proposed approach significantly improved the students' learning achievement, learning motivation, learning attitude, and problem solving ability.

A Representation Proposal of Practices for Teaching and Learning Software Engineering Using a Semat Kernel Extension

La ingeniería de software es una disciplina orientada a la definición de métodos, técnicas y herramientas para el desarrollo eficiente de productos de software. La demanda creciente de estos productos genera la necesidad de contar con una gran cantidad de ingenieros de software con las competencias técnicas y sociales requeridas por la industria. Esta situación es un desafio para las instituciones de educación superior en relación con el proceso de enseñanza de los futuros profesionales de esta disciplina. En este sentido, estas instituciones están explorando estrategias activas de enseñanza para promover en los estudiantes las competencias necesarias. Sin embargo, una propuesta integradora de estos enfoques de enseñanza no ha sido desarrollada hasta ahora. En este artículo los autores describen una propuesta para representar prácticas de enseñanza-aprendizaje de ingeniería de software, orientada a identificar los principales conceptos incluidos en cualquier tipo de práctica. Esta propuesta esta basada en el núcleo de Semat, del estandar Essence, como marco de trabajo universal para la representación de prácticas de ingeniería de software, definiendo una extensión de dicho núcleo. Finalmente, presentamos un ejemplo de representación de una práctica de enseñanza-aprendizaje de ingeniería de software usando la extensión del núcleo de Semat propuesta.

Activity Oriented Teaching Strategy for Software Engineering Course: An Experience Report

Aim/Purpose: This paper presents the findings of an Activity-Oriented Teaching Strategy (AOTS) conducted for a postgraduate level Software Engineering (SE) course with the aim of imparting meaningful software development experience for the students. The research question is framed as whether the activity-oriented teaching strategy helps students to acquire practical knowledge of Software Engineering and thus bridge the gap between academia and software industry. Background: Software Engineering Education (SEE) in India is mainly focused on teaching theoretical concepts rather than emphasizing on practical knowledge in software development process. It has been noticed that many students of CS/IT background are struggling when they start their career in the software industry due to inadequate familiarity with the software development process. In the current context of SE education, there is a knowledge gap between the theory learned in the classroom and the actual requirement demanded by the software industry. Methodology: The methodology opted for in this study was action research since the teachers are trying to solve the practical problems and deficiencies encountered while teaching SE. There are four pedagogies in AOTS for fulfilling the requirements of the desired teaching strategy. They are flipped classroom, project role-play for developing project artifacts, teaching by example, and student seminars. The study was conducted among a set of Postgraduate students of the Software Engineering programme at Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. Contribution: AOTS can fulfil both academic and industrial requirements by actively engaging the students in the learning process and thus helping them develop their professional skills. Findings: AOTS can be molded as a promising teaching strategy for learning Software Engineering. It focuses on the essential skill sets demanded by the software industry such as communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and understanding of the software development processes. Impact on Society: Activity-oriented teaching strategies can fulfil both academic and industrial requirements by actively engaging the students in the SE learning process and thus helping them in developing their professional skills. Future Research: AOTS can be refined by adding/modifying pedagogies and including different features like an online evaluation system, virtual classroom etc.

An Approach to Generate Software Agents for Health Data Mining

Data mining is a hot topic that attracts researchers of different areas, such as database, machine learning, and agent-oriented software engineering. As a consequence of the growth of data volume, there is an increasing need to obtain knowledge from these large datasets that are very difficult to handle and process with traditional methods. Software agents can play a significant role performing data mining processes in ways that are more efficient. For instance, they can work to perform selection, extraction, preprocessing, and integration of data as well as parallel, distributed, or multisource mining. This paper proposes a framework based on multiagent systems to apply data mining techniques to health datasets. Last but not least, the usage scenarios that we use are datasets for hypothyroidism and diabetes and we run two different mining processes in parallel in each database.

Interdisciplinary research agenda in support of assessment of collaborative problem solving: lessons learned from developing a Collaborative Science Assessment Prototype

Evidence from labor-market economics and predictive validity studies in psychology suggests that collaborative problem solving (CPS) is an increasingly important skill for both academic and career success in the 21st century. While there is a general agreement that collaborative problem solving is an important skill, there is less agreement on how to build an assessment to measure it, especially at scale and as a standardized test. Developing the type of CPS assessment envisioned in this work will require interdisciplinary synergy, involving learning science, data science, psychometrics, and software engineering. In this conceptual paper, we present our identification and novel instantiation of five interdisciplinary research strands supporting the development of a CPS assessment. We discuss how these research strands can comprehensively address some of the shortcomings of existing CPS assessments, such as collecting and managing the data from the process of collaboration in structured log files, or considering a statistical definition of collaboration in the design of the collaborative tasks. We describe the Collaborative Science Assessment Prototype developed at Educational Testing Service (ETS) under the proposed interdisciplinary research agenda to illustrate how these research strands can be operationalized.

Usability evaluation of intelligent tutoring system

Face-to-face and one-to-one human tutoring is the best tutoring field. Human tutors are not always and everywhere available and that’s why computer based tutoring is developed. Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) is the software system developed for tutoring human subjects, when human tutor is not available. ITS performance is not as good as human tutors, but ITS domain is improving and recently gaining much popularity. An ITS development project can involve an interdisciplinary team of experts from the domains of learning sciences, cognitive sciences, software engineering, and Human-computer interaction (HCI). ITS is a software intended to be used by human user; any software development project involves designing of user interfaces. Although ITS development has improved, but most of the development has focused on learning sciences and mostly ignoring the user interfaces. This has resulted in current ITS with efficient learning modules, but less efficient interface design. Performance of a software can be measured by it usability, and one way to define quality of a software is by its “ease of use”. Software that is not easy to use by its user can be considered of lower quality. This paper reviews the literature of ITS and usability; with the intention of indicating the currant gap between ITS development and usability of the system. This article also presents a discussion which can provide future directions in ITS development with usability context.

Group Maker Tool for Software Engineering Projects

Project-based learning is widely used in various academic fields. Nevertheless, software engineering projects have a special statute due to their interdisciplinary features. Unlike other academic disciplines, software engineering requires knowledge from diverse engineering areas, but also from system modeling and design, business domain, communication. In order to maximize the learning benefits and to facilitate obtaining successful projects, the teacher has to be actively involved in all the phases of the project life cycle, including team formation. This article presents a new application which implements the collaborative learning paradigm through project-based learning in software engineering. The model automates the process of optimal grouping of students in teams based on a skill inventory created by the teacher. The collected answers related to students’ skills will help the teacher to built the most equilibrate groups in one's class. The grouping is made taking into account various criteria. Once groups are formed, students can collaborate by chatting in the project's forum or by attaching additional files to their project. Preliminary results are provided and discussed in the context of various groupware tools.

Examining the effectiveness of 2D and 3D online environment in enhancing students' learning of software engineering

This study compares the effectiveness of games developed in 2D and 3D environments to help computer science and engineering students to gain deeper understanding of the software engineering implementation process. We have experimented with a multiplayer game and two single-player games developed in 2D and 3D online environments. The three games provided students with opportunities to virtually experiment and conceptualise the software engineering processes. Furthermore, these games were used to overcome the classroom limitations by replicating the software engineering processes. There was no significant difference in the scores, but students preferred the 3D virtual environment with avatars.

Method of Software Development Research Based on Mobile Platform

Software Engineering in 1968 made ​​by the NATO Science Committee, put forward the concept of the original software engineering software development rambling into a systems engineering, software development work to drive from individual behavior to the collaborative development forward, which also large systems may provide software development, this paper now mobile platform software development, how to introduce the concept of software engineering research, analysis software differences in the characteristics of mobile platform software development and in the traditional sense, learn software engineering concepts to guide the movement software development platform.

ANALISIS DAN RANCANGAN PROTOTIPE MANAJEMEN DOKUMENTASI REKAYASA PERANGKAT LUNAK

In our department, lectures found that students are difficult to create documentation, especially software documentation. Besides, software documentation is an important handbook in a software engineering. We need tools to help students or people that learn software engineering to create software documentation. This paper explains how to analyze and design a prototype for software documentation management. We propose three steps to do: problem analysis, prototype development and evaluation. First, we do the problem analysis by defining the component inputs, documentation management models and printing process. Then, the prototype is developed with object oriented software analysis and design. Finally, we create a traceability table and conduct a design testing in the evaluation step. At the result, we build analysis and design for a prototype to manage software engineering documentation with six use cases. The evaluation is conducted which well modeling the functional requirements. 26 errors are found and already refined in the documentation report. We ensure that this design is ready to implement.