Analyzing main characteristics in Software Engineering projects

Innovative Practice. Work In Progress. One of the biggest concerns when teaching a Software Engineering course is how to make the content understood in a practical way. In this sense, what is recommended is to apply projects in class, projects that as far as possible should be related to the real world and that involve a true learning. To analyze the characteristics of these projects, a framework was elaborated based on a matrix with attributes found in different academic projects carried out over 10 years, and weighted according to certain criteria. This paper presents an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages for each kind of project, using a radar-graph to visualize the main characteristics of these. In the end, there is a wide variety of software projects, and each one has benefits for one or more entities of the triangle: student, professor, client.