ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Fri 19 Apr 2024 17:00 - 17:15 at Luis de Freitas Branco - Human and Social 8 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik

The importance of teaching software ethics to software engineering (SE) students is more critical now than ever before as software-related ethical issues continue to impact society at an alarming rate. Traditional classroom methods, vignettes, role-play games, and quizzes have been employed over the years to teach SE students about software ethics. Recognising the significance of incorporating software ethics knowledge in SE education and the continued need for more efforts in the area of the teaching and learning of SE ethics, we developed an interactive, scenario-based Software Ethics Quiz. Our goal was to teach SE students about ethics in a comprehensive, open, and engaging manner through a combined approach of an online lecture followed by an interactive workshop with the quiz and a debriefing session. The anonymous quiz responses collected showed promising results regarding the engagement and efficacy of the lecture and quiz, with a slightly better rating for the interactive quiz. The voluntary student feedback collected suggested that a majority of the participants found the debrief discussion on the quiz scenarios to be very beneficial for learning about software ethics. In this experience report, we share our experiences, related educational resources including the quiz, and recommendations from lessons learned with the wider education community to keep driving this critical topic forward.

Fri 19 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
16:00
15m
Talk
Property-Based Testing in PracticeACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Harrison Goldstein University of Pennsylvania, Joseph W. Cutler University of Pennsylvania, Daniel Dickstein Jane Street, Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Head University of Pennsylvania
16:15
15m
Talk
Navigating the Path of Women in Software Engineering: From Academia to Industry
Software Engineering in Society
Tatalina Oliveira CESAR School, Ann Barcomb Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Helda Barros CESAR School, Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari , Cesar França CESAR School
Pre-print
16:30
15m
Talk
Early Career Software Developers - Are You Sinking or Swimming?
Software Engineering in Society
Xin Zhao Seattle University, Narissa Tsuboi Seattle University
Pre-print Media Attached
16:45
15m
Talk
An experience report on the use of Active Learning in Empirical Software Engineering Education: Understanding the pros and cons from the student's perspective
Software Engineering Education and Training
Maria Alcimar Costa Meireles UFAM - Federal University of Amazonas, Sabrina Rocha UFAM - Federal University of Amazonas, José Carlos Maldonado Loggi Tecnologia and University of São Paulo - USP and, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas
17:00
15m
Talk
Teaching Software Ethics to Future Software Engineers
Software Engineering Education and Training
Aastha Pant Monash University, Simone Spiegler Monash University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, Jeremy Yoon Monash University, Nabeeb Yusuf Monash University, Tian Er Monash University, Shenyi Hu Monash University
17:15
7m
Talk
Mind the Gap: Gender, Micro-inequities and Barriers in Software Development
Journal-first Papers
Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Janey Kok Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam