The Use of Industry Training Strategies in a Software Engineering Course: An Experience Report

The software industry presents dissatisfaction in relation to the level of recently graduated professionals. Consequently, software companies end up investing in the training of these professionals in order to develop skills related to the software development process. This paper presents an experience report of an adaptation of industry training practices in a course of Software Engineering (SE). Initially, we mapped SE topics of the ACM/IEEE curriculum guidelines to the specific practices of the CMMI-DEV model. Then, we carried out a survey of training strategies with 10 consultants in Software Process Improvement (SPI), who also act as SE professors. Finally, these strategies have been adapted and incorporated in a SE Course. We compared the impact of these learning strategies in relation to traditional teaching approaches, regarding the student perception of learning. We observed an increase of approximately 20 percent in student perception of learning in relation to the SE topics with industry training strategies.