An industrial software project as a software engineering module at HU Kay Schützler.

An industrial software project as a software engineering module at HU

Kay Schützler

Baile Herculane, 28.08. - 03.09.05Kay Schützler2

Structure of this presentation

How the project started Organisation of the project and experience

from winter semester 2004/2005 Organisation of the project and experience

from summer semester 2005 Future


How the project started:The first meeting

Mr Kirsten(from industry) me

Prof. Bothe

I need some cheap programmers and

future employees...

Do you know a good student

who is interested in our new project?




Prof. Bothe

Don‘t expect too much of cheap

programmers that don‘t know your

company!

Students are not easy to find, but I‘ve got an idea:A seminar on...




Prof. Bothe

Finally Kay will do something

meaningful then...But how to manage...

Requirements Engineering!

Get them to learn about real life!




Prof. BotheGreat idea!

I could give you a short description of the project by

next week

Better this way, than no way...

Perhaps we could do it like with XCTL:

Student projects, Diploma theses, ...




Prof. Bothe


Original aims of the project

Introduction of students to a new domain Practice of requirements analysis methods Involvement in a real-life project Finding out good students Retrieving some interesting topics for diploma

theses Establish a longer running cooperation


Organisation of the project (winter semester 04/05)

Meetings every two or three weeks at the institute– Discussing all kinds of issues– Presenting documents from industry and students

Two meetings at the company‘s place– Introduction to real life software development

circumstances

Central web and (later) CVS repository


Screenshot of project

web site (1)

Overview

Schedule

Project: Requirements

Engineering for development

and production processes


Screenshot of project

web site (2)

Project partner

Literature


Project partner: AEG netcontrol

“offers services and solutions for energy

distribution and supply companies as well as

for the industry”


Experience from project(after winter semester 04/05)

Project aims changed significantly Results from three sub projects:

– one quite successful, – one quite unsuccessful, – and one far away from good or bad

Nevertheless – cooperation considered a success

Cooperation continued after joint analysis of project‘s goods and bads


Change of project aims

Initial idea at HU: – Show students real life (but at first only by analysing

requirements in a real life environment)

Industry:– Showed students real life – unfortunately the hard

way– After short and rather incomplete requirements

analysis a strong wish for implementation occurred


Change of project aims

Students: – Learned about real life– Tried to implement something– Had not enough stable requirements– Had not as much time as expected– Started a rebellion a few times– Somehow managed their way through


After this experience:How to proceed? (Proceed at all?)

Despite all problems industry showed strong interest in continuing cooperation– Quote: "Only stupid ones make the same mistake

more than once. Let‘s try to make some new mistakes next semester!"

– Another success: two students from project started practical work (student projects) at the company

– Industry donated 5.000,- € to our group


Organisation of the project(summer semester 05)

This time: PURE requirements engineering Weekly meetings with the students

– Every first week with the customer for interviews on certain topics (use cases, test cases, non-functional requirements)

– Every second week without the customer to discuss students summaries of previous meeting


Schedulein summer

semester 05Introduction

Collecting and discussinguse cases

Collecting and discussingtest cases

Summary


Experience from project(after summer semester 05)

Everything went better– Stronger dedication of the project partner– Students felt more comfortable in this more strictly

organised form Developed several documents

– Put together ideas from each project participant– Each document shows a different aspect of the

software to be developed Cooperation considered a greater success


Future

Continue cooperation Find some interesting topics for diploma theses Getting more case studies from the industry

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