Using ISO work-in-progress documents in teaching software engineering: an experiment

Abstract

Material to teach evaluation and selection of new technologies is often geared towards major organizations and research centers. However, software engineers in small to medium sized organizations are often faced with the same challenge of selecting new technologies. For graduate courses in software engineering, there is currently is a lack of teaching material geared towards the needs of small to medium sized organizations. The paper discusses the redesigning of a graduate course in software engineering using as base material the work in progress of an ISO subcommittee in software engineering. The test of the redesign was carried out through a class simulation of the review process of an ISO working group. Lessons learned from both the learning and teaching perspectives are presented.