Teaching software engineering with SimulES-W

Elizabeth Suescun Monsalve, Vera Maria B. Werneck, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite
2011 2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)  
This work presents an educational board and card game named SimulES-W, as a tool for teaching Software Engineering. It encompasses 5 years of evolution, in which the game Problems and Programmers was the fundamental source. SimulES-W innovates in three distinct areas: it is a web based game, it relies on a broad view of the software process and it is customizable for content. SimulES-W is supported by collaborative software that implements the SimulES board game. The paper describes the game,
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doi:10.1109/cseet.2011.5876102 dblp:conf/csee/MonsalveWL11 fatcat:cb6pr7otrvc2pierzo6hr3c47m