A framework to design software startups courses in software engineering undergraduate curriculum

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Chanin, Rafael Matone
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola Politécnica; Brasil; PUCRS; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Startups; Software Engineering Education; Startup Education; Entrepreneurship Education; Active Learning Methodology; Software Startups; Ensino em Engenharia de Software; Ensino em Startup; Ensino em Empreendedorismo; Metodologias Ativas; Startups de Software; CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::TEORIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9531

The advances in technology have enabled people to develop services and products that can reach millions of people around the world. These endeavours, that are developed under high uncertainty, are called startups. Facebook and Google are examples of successful companies that once were startups. However, most startups fail in their first years of life. From an education standpoint, even though universities are adapting their curricula in order to embrace startup education content, the challenge still remains: how can we provide real world experiences for software engineering students to develop relevant software startups? In order to fill this gap, the goal of this research is to propose a framework that can serve as guidance to faculty to better deliver software startup content to software engineering students. The work was divided into three research phases: exploratory, initial proposal, and evaluation and evolution. In the exploratory phase we deepen our understanding on software startup, as well as on how these concepts are taught to students. This was pursued through empirical studies, such as systematic mapping review, surveys, and case studies. From these results, an initial proposal of the framework was developed - the Challenge Based Startup Learning. Finally, in the evaluation and evolution phase, we conducted an expert panel in order to gather feedback from specialists, so we could improve the framework. Therefore, this research aims at contributing to the educational community when it comes to teaching software startups in the context of undergraduate software engineering curriculum.