Building a community system to teach collaborative software development

This paper reports an Open Source Software (OSS) community for Computer Science students to support collaborative software development activities. We built an in-house version control system using only OSS products, which allows students to easily collaborate on development projects, while simultaneously allowing instructors to easily track students' activities. As our system provides a controlled educational environment, students can experience various aspects of software development by playing different roles. In addition, the community's code repository works as a knowledge base for student projects, and thus students can reuse the code and artifacts as examples or basic frameworks for their development.