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通过研究软件模块化研究软件工程师的教育。该项目通过基于设计规则理论，设计结构矩阵建模和体系结构审查的方法来解决模块化的设计。活动包括开发实验室和家庭作业，其中包含用于现实软件应用程序的一系列演变方案。包括活动，教学材料和用于检测模块化问题的工具的教学套餐。该工具用于确定学生实施中的设计问题。正在评估执行建筑评论的几种方法，以确定哪种方法最能帮助学生设计更好的模块化软件。模块化设计是对软件工程师进行教育的基本话题，但是几乎没有关于如何教授它的严格研究。 该项目利用研究结果来促进教学实践，并有可能进步我们对设计问题的原因的基本理解，这些原因可能最终导致维护困难。项目的结果可能从根本上改变了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教室来教授软件设计的方式，从而导致训练有素的软件设计人员具有知识，技能和工具，以生产软件，以造成更低的维护成本。