Collaborative Research: Teaching Software Modularity through Architectural Review

协作研究：通过架构审查教授软件模块化

• 批准号: 1140752
• 负责人: Yuanfang Cai
• 金额: $ 6.84万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Teaching; Software; Modularity

Drexel University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Hawaii are advancing the education of software engineers through research on teaching software modularity. This project addresses designing for modularity with an approach based on design rule theory, design structure matrix modeling, and architecture review. Activities include development of labs and homework assignments featuring a series of evolution scenarios for realistic software applications. A teaching package which includes the activities, instructional materials, and a tool for detecting modularity problems is being constructed. The tool is used to identify design problems within student implementations. Several approaches to performing architecture reviews are being evaluated to determine which approach best helps students design better modularized software.Designing for modularity is a fundamental topic in educating software engineers, yet there has been little rigorous research on how to teach it. This project leverages research results to facilitate teaching practice and has the potential to advance our basic understanding of the causes of design problems that may eventually result in maintenance difficulties. Project results may fundamentally change the way software design is taught by introducing rigorous modularity analysis techniques and semi-automatic architecture review into the classroom, resulting in better trained software designers who are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and tools to produce software that incurs much lower maintenance costs.

德雷克塞尔大学、卡内基梅隆大学和夏威夷大学正在通过教学软件模块化的研究来推进软件工程师的教育。该项目采用基于设计规则理论、设计结构矩阵建模和体系结构审查的方法进行模块化设计。活动包括开发实验室和家庭作业，以现实软件应用程序的一系列发展场景为特色。正在构建一个教学包，其中包括活动、教学材料和用于检测模块化问题的工具。该工具用于识别学生实施中的设计问题。人们正在评估几种进行体系结构审查的方法，以确定哪种方法最能帮助学生设计更好的模块化软件。模块化设计是培养软件工程师的一个基本主题，但关于如何教授它的严谨研究很少。这个项目利用研究成果来促进教学实践，并有可能促进我们对最终可能导致维护困难的设计问题的原因的基本理解。项目成果可能会通过将严格的模块化分析技术和半自动体系结构审查引入课堂，从根本上改变软件设计的教学方式，从而产生训练有素的软件设计人员，他们拥有知识、技能和工具来生产出维护成本低得多的软件。