Evaluating Code Improvements in Software Quality Course
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D 2022

Evaluating Code Improvements in Software Quality Course Projects

CHREN, Stanislav, Martin MACÁK, Bruno ROSSI a Barbora BÜHNOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Evaluating Code Improvements in Software Quality Course Projects

Autoři

CHREN, Stanislav (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí), Martin MACÁK (703 Slovensko, domácí), Bruno ROSSI (380 Itálie, domácí) a Barbora BÜHNOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí)

Vydání

New York, NY, USA, Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, od s. 160-169, 10 s. 2022

Nakladatel

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14330/22:00125535

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta informatiky

ISBN

978-1-4503-9613-4

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3530019.3530036

Klíčová slova anglicky

Software Engineering; Software Engineering Education; Software Quality; Static Code Analysis; Qualitative Analysis

Štítky

core_A, firank_A

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 3. 2023 21:21, RNDr. Martin Macák, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Software quality sits at the core of software engineering as a discipline. Yet, although each university software-engineering and the software-development course covers software quality to some extent, practitioners still lament on graduates’ readiness for practise for this very reason—poor quality of their code. As a result, we have engaged university industrial partners in designing a master-degree Software Quality course that puts the key software quality topics in one place. In this paper, we report on the effects of the course on the quality of students’ coding projects. To this end, we have analysed a total of 54 project submissions from 27 students, with both manual and automated quality assessment methods. We have employed 30 manual and 22 automated quality characteristics related to coding style, architecture design and general development practices. In particular, we examine which characteristics of the code have improved the most and what were the most common issues. Additionally, we investigate how the code quality improvement is related to external aspects such as students’ prior coding experience, interest and their time spent on the assignments. We use the results to formulate a set of lessons learned in order to improve the design of the course and to inspire educators who consider introducing a similar type of course.

Návaznosti

CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000822, interní kód MU
(Kód CEP: EF16_019/0000822)

Název: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur (Akronym: C4e)

Investor: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR, Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur, PO 1 Posilování kapacit pro kvalitní výzkum

EF16_019/0000822, projekt VaV

Název: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur

MUNI/A/1230/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Zapojení studentů Fakulty informatiky do mezinárodní vědecké komunity 22 (Akronym: SKOMU)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Zapojení studentů Fakulty informatiky do mezinárodní vědecké komunity 22

Citovat

CHREN, Stanislav, Martin MACÁK, Bruno ROSSI a Barbora BÜHNOVÁ. Evaluating Code Improvements in Software Quality Course Projects. Online. In Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022, s. 160-169. ISBN 978-1-4503-9613-4. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3530019.3530036.

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ER  -

CHREN, Stanislav, Martin MACÁK, Bruno ROSSI a Barbora BÜHNOVÁ. Evaluating Code Improvements in Software Quality Course Projects. Online. In \textit{Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering}. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022, s.~160-169. ISBN~978-1-4503-9613-4. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3530019.3530036.

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