This year, I give a lecture on software architecture for BSc students. I'm still looking for some "action" for the students, and I want to replace 2-3 exercises (4-6 hours) by an experiment. Does anybody has a design for an experiment on UML modeling? For instance, an experiment that waits for replication?
Thanks Marco
In the scope of my courses for Software Engineering I usually give to my students the following task: “Small private company in landscape design, which works on simplified taxation, needs a database for recording of clients and those orders”. I am acting as “client” while exercises.
Students have to identify main needs of “client” by interview, then to provide a draft design in UML and ER-diagram for database.
Hi Maxim,
Thanks for the answer. However, it's not what I'm looking for. I have a bunch of such examples and sandbox-tasks myself. What I'm looking for is:
- A complete experiment (or a small case study)
- A study design, which was at least implemented once (actually I need the case, data collection and analysis procedures; if possible a paper reference)
The point is, that I'd like to conduct some small experiments with students (I have about 60-70), as I made positive experiences with that. I have designs for project- and process management experiments, unfortunately, I have no experiment designs for UML at disposal.
Furthermore, as I experienced this kind of teaching useful for students (something more practical that they can learn) and for research (get some empirical data), I'd like to implement this my actual architecture course as well.
So again: If anybody has an experiment (or more general a study-) design at hands that can be implemented in ca. 4 hours, please share.
Best Marco
PS: Of course I'll share the collected data afterwards.
Dear Marco,
I recommend you Prof. Russell C. Bjork's ATM example in UML. The case study is complete from the analyses to the working system. You find it http://www.math-cs.gordon.edu/courses/cs211/ATMExample/
Best regards, József
For the software architecture design, non functional requirements are very important features for PASM aspect. So, the Elevator case study is one case study to the student on BSc, on my opinion.
Hi, We published the following paper recently. Let me know if you need any extra information:
Nour Ali, Carlos Solis, Exploring How the Attribute Driven Design Method is Perceived. You can access it http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zz3LAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Exploring+How+the+Attribute+Driven+Design+Method+is+Perceived&source=bl&ots=Wgk8PoSvXV&sig=4PE_wxFEZGHSesqUNVAgLonD04g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zzgpVPXnFMfiatHmgbAH&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Exploring%20How%20the%20Attribute%20Driven%20Design%20Method%20is%20Perceived&f=false
yes i did something like that and published some about it called " CSCW-based Software Engineering Course: A Case Study Of Distributed Collaborative Software Modeling in Education". here is the paper. let me know if this helped or if there are any questions.
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Hi Maya,
Unfortunately, I had to postpone as I had to improve some programming-related skills first. I plan to reorganize this course somewhat to get more space for this, and will execute it next winter. However, I have the basic idea (solution development using design pattern). Do we want to talk about that to detail that out and to create a joint experiment design, which you carry out first? If you want, I can send you (next week after all the exams) the basic stuff..
/Marco
I guess few of the the work we have done in this area could be useful for this!
Attached details are presenting the architecture for visualization. The link is a paper describing architecture of an embedded device.
Hope this helps!
Hi Marco,
i have conducted a similar experiment where students keep improving a software architecture using UML for a distributed UML modeling Groupware and have replicated the experiment over 3 semesters. everything is described in this paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264464358_CSCW-based_Software_Engineering_Course_A_Case_Study_Of_Distributed_Collaborative_Software_Modeling_in_Education
if you need more input let me know.
take care
Naoufel
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