Uma estratégia para o desenvolvimento de habilidades de comunicação e colaboração para futuros engenheiros de software

Abstract

The software industry needs professionals who, in addition to technical knowledge, possess certain skills that positively affect the development process software. In this dissertation initially held up a mapping systematic about which skills are reported in the literature as being more important for the software engineer. This mapping served to limit the scope of this work to the skills of communication and collaboration. The development of communication skills and collaboration, according to several authors, occurs from practical activities. Therefore, try to enable the best students, with regard to communication and collaboration, would integrate them into projects with industry. However, it is not always possible to establish partnerships with industry software. An alternative is to simulate the industrial scenario in the academic environment. A practice that has grown in the industry is the geographical distribution of staff development, known as Distributed Software Development (DSD). Then, simulate a scenario DDS is a possible way to bring students from reality of the software industry. This is the approach proposed in this dissertation. Two experimental studies were conducted to obtain evidence about the effectiveness the proposed pedagogical approach. Every experiment we sought to improve way of collecting and analyzing data, and performed the triangulation of these data aimed obtaining the most reliable conclusions. It was observed that the use DDS is quite motivating for students, but there are other factors that This affect motivation, such as the affinity between team members co-allocated. Properly manage these factors in order to maintain participants motivated, can be the difference between success and failure of the activity of teaching, one Since skill development is influenced by motivation.