Virtual Laboratories to Support Software Development Teams

9452594诺赛克高级多学期团队软件开发项目的“现实世界”问题提供了不可估量的丰富的学习经验。然而，学生团队在寻找见面机会方面遇到的常见问题，对于通勤、打工支付教育费用和/或身体残疾的城市贫困和中产阶级学生来说，更加严重。目前为学生软件开发团队提供的基于计算机的实验室在几个主要方面存在不足：可用性有限；限制学生访问客户端/服务器功能，以防止学生无意中导致公共实验室出现故障；无法支持校外工作场所的团队工作；团队讨论干扰使用同一公共实验室的其他学生，或受到他们的限制。采用尖端技术的“虚拟实验室”旨在为灵活、便携的局域网提供有效的协作软件，为软件开发团队提供随时随地的实验室支持。这种方法将从根本上改变教授团队软件开发的方式。

9452594 Nosek Senior level multi-semester team software development projects of "real-world" problems provide inestimable rich learning experiences. However, the usual problems that student teams encounter in finding opportunities to meet are exacerbated for poor and middle class urban students who commute, work to pay for educational expenses, and/or are physically challenged. Current computer-based laboratories available for student software development teams are inadequate in several major ways: limited availability; restrictions on student access to client/server functions to prevent inadvertent student-caused failure of the common laboratory; can't support team efforts at off-campus work sites; team discussion interferes with, or are inhibited by, other students using the same common laboratory. "Virtual laboratories" using leading edge technologies are proposed to provide flexible, portable LANs with effective collaborative software to provide any time/any place laboratory support for software development teams. This approach will fundamentally alter the way team software development is taught.