A training program for building client server systems and its evaluation using WWW browser

Describes a training program for building client-server systems (CSSs) which uses intranet technology in particular for novice software engineers (SEs). This program is a part of a seminar about techniques for building CSSs. The training program contains a target system and manuals. An order management system is selected as the target application. One exercise in this program is to program part of the target system, which contains many techniques for developing CSSs. The training manuals are given as HTML documents. Six experimental examinees used the training program in order to evaluate it. References logs for manuals, programming logs and compiling logs were recorded. The training process was divided into three phases: understanding, programming and debugging. The duration of each phase was calculated. The results showed that students could be trained in a limited amount of time, efficiently and easily.