IEEE Computer Society Real World Software Engineering Problems

(1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a final degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students’ contributions to improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, the instructors and for the project itself. This work reports on a practical experience developed by four students contributing to mature OSS projects during their FDPs, detailing how they addressed the multiple challenges involved, both from the students and teachers perspective. (2) Methods: we followed the work of four students contributing to two established OSS projects for two academic years and analyzed their work on GitHub and their responses to a survey. (3) Results: we obtained a set of specific recommendations for future practitioners and detailed a list of benefits achieved by steering FDP towards OSS contributions, for students, teachers and the OSS projects. (4) Conclusion: we find out that FDPs oriented towards enhancing OSS projects can introduce students into real-world, practical examples of software engineering principles, give them a boost in their confidence about their technical and communication skills and help them build a portfolio of contributions to daily used worldwide open source applications.

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Special issue on ‘Program development’

Theory and Practice of Logic Programming ◽

10.1017/s1471068402001424 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 2 (4-5) ◽

pp. 423-424 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MAURICE BRUYNOOGHE ◽

KUNG-KIU LAU

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Program Development ◽

Real World ◽

Development Process ◽

Logic Program ◽

Future Challenge ◽

Special Issue ◽

Logical Foundations ◽

The Past ◽

Specification Synthesis

This special issue marks the tenth anniversary of the LOPSTR workshop. LOPSTR started in 1991 as a workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, but later it broadened its scope to logic-based Program Development in general.The motivating force behind LOPSTR has been a belief that declarative paradigms such as logic programming are better suited to program development tasks than traditional non-declarative ones such as the imperative paradigm. Specification, synthesis, transformation or specialisation, analysis, verification and debugging can all be given logical foundations, thus providing a unifying framework for the whole development process.In the past ten years or so, such a theoretical framework has indeed begun to emerge. Even tools have been implemented for analysis, verification and specialisation. However, it is fair to say that so far the focus has largely been on programming-in-the-small. So the future challenge is to apply or extend these techniques to programming-in-the-large, in order to tackle software engineering in the real world.

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IEEE Computer Society Harlan D. Mills Award: Call for Software Engineering Award Nominations

Computing in Science & Engineering ◽

10.1109/mcse.2014.104 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. 13-13

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Ieee Computer Society

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Philosophy Applying in Information Engineering

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.403-408.2127 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 403-408 ◽

pp. 2127-2130

Author(s):

Chun Yan Liu ◽

Zhu Lin Liu

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Computer Software ◽

Research Field ◽

Convergence Theory ◽

Software Products ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Engineering Problems ◽

Information Engineering ◽

Field Information

With the computer software and technology continuously improving, because of various factors influencing, computer engineers are very tough on how to improve the quality of software products, this is a bottleneck problem we must solve. We think that the information engineering combining with the philosophy thought would make engineer’s ideas suddenly enlightened. We find a method and model to solve software engineering problems from the philosophical Angle, and put forward the importance of information philosophy in the study of information engineering by standing at this altitude of the information engineering. As a new field, information philosophy provides a unified, convergence theory frame, it can satisfy the requirement of further specialized. Information philosophy will become most exciting and productive philosophy research field in our era's.

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