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Automated Software Engineering: What’s missing in education?

Automated Software Engineering: What’s missing in education?. Debra J. Richardson Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences http://www.ics.uci.edu/~djr/. What is ASE?.

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Automated Software Engineering: What’s missing in education?

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  1. Automated Software Engineering:What’s missing in education? Debra J. Richardson Department of Informatics Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences http://www.ics.uci.edu/~djr/

  2. What is ASE? • ASE is about automating the activities involved in software development, assisting human participants • human participants remain “in the loop” • mundane tasks are automated (downstream, accidents) • not so mundane tasks are assisted (upstream, essential)

  3. ASE Topics

  4. ASE Essentials • ASE is different in focus from traditional computer science and also from software engineering • Aiming for some degree of knowledge-based, software-based assistance for software-intensive system developers • Requires understanding the work, context, and participants that will be assisted • Requires human-centered analysis and design • Software “tools” to mediate work • Evaluation is critical of conceptual frameworks and tools

  5. Teaching ASE • Computer science doesn’t do it well • neither do software engineering programs • what’s needed is CS & SE in context • both for the purpose of teaching ASE and also to excite students about the topic

  6. Crisis in CS/SE Education • Decreasing enrollments in CS-related fields • Continuing attrition of good students • Virtual lack of diversity in participants • Increasing breadth of computer science challenge = opportunity! ASE should take this on by contextualizing CS&SE

  7. Low enrollments due to dot com crash fear of off-shoring geek image misunderstanding of computer science … High attrition due to boredom with programming loss of focus appearance of irrelevance … Partly it’s an image problem Recruitment and retention is proportionally lower for women&minorities More likely to seek something socially-relevant and/or people-oriented

  8. Four issues of context:two dimensions • Software / Information • Development / Design • Technical / Social • Creation / Study To be effective, we must teach ASE as a discipline broader than CS or SE alone

  9. Novel, engaging, problem-based, and creativity-oriented integrated & coherent curriculum multi-course sequences for depth and continuity apply spiral approach (“just-in-time learning”) Studio and design courses as well as cap-stone projects collaborative, team-oriented assignments, practical experiences with realistic, socially relevant projects in a safe educational setting showcase of projects done throughout the year, excellent internship preparation How should we teach ASE?

  10. ASE has a challenge! and an opportunity! Contextualize and Lead in CS/SE Education

  11. Informatics@UCI:what do we mean? • Interdisciplinary study of the design, application, use, and impact of information technology • software but also information • development but also design • technical but also social • synthesis but also analysis • Broadly speaking: computing and software engineering in context • inherently inter-disciplinary • more on designing real-world solutions, less on building infrastructure

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