Poster: A Matrix for Analyzing Projects in Software Engineering Courses

The careful selection of a project for Software Engineering courses is important from the point of view of the student, the teacher and the project user or client -if available. But, how do you determine whether to develop a complex fictional case, or a simple real-world project with a considerable amount of learning about the software lifecycle? How do you determine whether or not to develop a social project aimed at the community? In order to analyze project characteristics a framework was elaborated, based in a matrix with attributes found in different academic projects carried out over 10 years, and weighted according to certain criteria. It is expected that the result of this analysis will help professors choose the most appropriate software project to develop in class, depending on the characteristics of each project.