ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Wed 17 Apr 2024 14:15 - 14:30 at Glicínia Quartin - Human and Social 2 Chair(s): Ayushi Rastogi

Developing technical and behavioral skills in students who want to succeed in the mobile application (apps) development market is not trivial and represents a considerable challenge for educational institutions. A partnership between a University and a Technology Company was established to achieve this goal through a software development studio. The environment uses the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) methodology to enable students to develop apps that can succeed in such a competitive market. One of the challenges is the Business Nano Challenge (BNC), a short challenge that focuses not only on the development skills but also on the business aspects. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the results of applying the BNC. Due to the characteristics of the project, the case study research method was chosen. It was carried out using semi-structured interviews with the studio participants. The data was analyzed qualitatively with the support of the Atlas.ti tool. The results show that, during the BNC, the students developed and practiced soft and technical skills covering the entire app development process, from design to publishing. They also practiced tasks related to publishing the app, such as market search, project design, marketing, advertising, financial resource management, monetization, and post-publication as metrics analysis, monitoring, and optimizing the mobile app. It was possible to identify that the students developed fundamental competencies for the mobile application development market, including technical and soft skills and a business vision, essential to succeed in this area.

Wed 17 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
Causal Relationships and Programming Outcomes: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ExperimentACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Hammad Ahmad University of Michigan, Madeline Endres University of Michgain, Kaia Newman Carnegie Mellon University, Priscila Santiesteban University of Michigan, Emma Shedden University of Michigan, Westley Weimer University of Michigan
14:15
15m
Talk
Training App Developers in a Software Studio: The Business Nano Challenge Experience
Software Engineering Education and Training
Tania Mara Dors Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Ana Paula Schran de Almeida Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Lohine Mussi Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Fabio Vinicius Binder Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Sheila Reinehr Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Andreia Malucelli Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
14:30
15m
Talk
Breaking Barriers: Investigating the Sense of Belonging Among Women and Non-Binary Students in Software Engineering
Software Engineering Education and Training
Lina Boman University of Gothenburg, Jonatan Andersson University of Gothenburg, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto Chalmers | University of Gothenburg
14:45
15m
Talk
Micro-inequities and immigration backgrounds in the software industry
Software Engineering in Society
Valentin Markulj , Kousar Aslam VU Amsterdam, Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15:00
15m
Talk
Alexa, is the skill always safe? Uncover Lenient Skill Vetting Process and Protect User Privacy at Run Time
Software Engineering in Society
Tu Le University of California, Irvine, Dongfang Zhao Indiana University Bloomington, Zihao Wang Indiana University Bloomington, XiaoFeng Wang Indiana University Bloomington, Yuan Tian
Media Attached
15:15
7m
Talk
CodeGRITS: A Research Toolkit for Developer Behavior and Eye Tracking in IDE
Demonstrations
Ningzhi Tang University of Notre Dame, Junwen An , Meng Chen , Aakash Bansal University of Notre Dame, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University, Collin McMillan University of Notre Dame, Toby Jia-Jun Li University of Notre Dame