Teaching Software Product Lines: A Snapshot of Current Practices and Challenges (Journal-First Abstract)

Mathieu Acher (1) , Roberto E Lopez-Herrejon (2) , Rick Rabiser (3)

1 DiverSe - Diversity-centric Software Engineering
2 ETS - Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal]
3 JKU - University of Linz - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

This extended abstract summarizes our article entitled " Teaching Software Product Lines: A Snapshot of Current Practices and Challenges " published in the ACM Transactions on Computing Education , vol. 18 in 2017 (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3088440). The article reports on three initiatives we have conducted with scholars, educators, industry practitioners, and students to understand the connection between software product lines and education and to derive recommendations for educators to continue improving the state of practice of teaching SPLs.

Mots clés: • Applied computing → Education; • Social and professional topics → Computing education; • Software and its engineering → Software product lines; Software Product Lines; Variability Modeling; Software Engineering Teaching; Software Product Line Teaching; Surveys and overviews

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Mathieu Acher, Roberto E Lopez-Herrejon, Rick Rabiser. Teaching Software Product Lines: A Snapshot of Current Practices and Challenges (Journal-First Abstract). SPLC2018 - 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, Sep 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. pp.1. ⟨hal-01829933⟩