The Proposal of a Qualification Based Approach to Teach Software Engineering Course
Afnan Alsolamy and Rizwan Qureshi
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Abstract: Software engineering students are facing many difficulties and challenging tasks when they approaching to industry. They suffer from inadequate experiences that are lacking in them to be skilled software engineers. This paper proposes a new approach to teach and train the students of software engineering course. The qualification approach (proposed in this paper) concentrates to establish a separate centre to provide a facility for students to understand real time environment similar to one in the industry. Furthermore, it focuses to live availability of real customers during software development. The approach also proposes to test each student using one of the personality tests. This will support to focus to develop a student’s skills in one area, which is related to their personality preference.
Keywords: Software engineering education, teaching, centre, personality test.
Received March 30, 2013; accepted September 11, 2013