Software Engineering Education and TrainingICSE 2020

The Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) track is premier forum for research and experience reports on challenges, innovations, and best practices in software engineering and training. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results and experiences.

Call for Papers

Software engineering education is a lifelong activity. Globally, K-12 education has begun to incorporate computing into school, including many foundational concepts from software engineering. Demand for computer and information science graduates is at an all-time high. Coding bootcamps are nearly graduating more software developers than all CS departments combined. And professional software developers’ daily work, more than ever, is defined by learning new languages, new APIs, and new platforms, and discarding old knowledge and skills.

However, many open questions remain about how to support this learning. What skills does software engineering require? How can teachers effectively and equitably teach these skills? How can online materials and communities teach these skills? What is the role of educational technology in supporting this learning and teaching? And how do we integrate this learning into existing and future organizations, such as schools and companies?

The Software Engineering Education and Training track seeks research papers and experience reports on all of these aspects of learning and teaching software engineering. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Foundational research about software engineering skills
• Novel methods of teaching software engineering skills
• Novel methods of evaluating, assessing, and measuring software engineering skills
• Evaluations of teaching and assessment methods
• Empirical studies describing software engineering education contexts
• Novel learning technologies that support software engineering education and training
• Well-substantiated arguments about what skills are most essential to learn
• Investigations into equity, diversity, and inclusion in software engineering education
• Studies of formal learning contexts such as school or trainings
• Studies of informal learning such as hackathons, learning on the job, and Stack Overflow
• The role of culture in software engineering education and training

Submission

• Research papers (5-10 pages, plus up to 2 for references). Papers in this category will be evaluated against the same four criteria as research papers in the ICSE technical track:
  • Soundness: How well the paper’s contributions are supported by rigorous application of appropriate research methods.
  • Significance: The extent to which the paper’s contributions are novel, original, and important, with respect to the existing literature on software engineering and computing education.
  • Verifiability: The extent to which the paper includes sufficient information to support independent verification or replication of the paper’s claimed contributions,
  • Presentation: The extent to which the paper’s quality of writing includes clear descriptions and explanations, absence of major ambiguity, clearly readable figures and tables, and adherence to the formatting.
• Experience reports (up to 4 pages). Papers in this category will be held to the same presentation, verifiability, and significance criteria as research papers, but not to the soundness criterion. Typical experience reports will describe an idea or an experience, but not evaluate it, nor use research methods to support claims about it.

All SEET submissions must not exceed 10 pages, including all text, figures, tables, and appendices. Two additional pages containing only references are permitted for research papers. Additionally:

• Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments.
• Submission must comply with the ACM plagiarism policy and procedures. In particular, it must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review elsewhere while under review for ICSE.
• Submissions must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

All papers will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. This means that submissions should make every effort to avoid disclosing the authors’ identity or affiliation, including anonymizing the names and affiliations in the submitted draft. A submission found to violate the double-blind review guidelines might be desk-rejected before review. For more details, please see the author tips in the ICSE 2020 double blind review process description.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All papers 4 or fewer pages will be treated as experience reports. All other papers will be reviewed as research papers.

Accepted papers and panel summaries will be published in the ICSE-SEET 2020 Proceedings and in the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. The official publication date of the proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Conference Attendance Expectation

If a submission is accepted, at least one author of the paper is required to register for and attend the full 3-day technical conference and present the paper in person.

Important Dates

Submissions deadline: 29 October, 2019

Notification of reviewing decisions: 15 January, 2020

Camera ready due: 7 February, 2020

Accepted Papers

	Title
	Addressing the Double Challenge of Learning and Teaching Enterprise Technologies through Peer TeachingSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Richard Glassey, Olle Bälter, Philipp Haller, Mattias Wiggberg
	Adopting Industry Agile Practices in Large-scale Capstone EducationSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Jean-Guy Schneider, Peter Eklund, Kevin Lee, Feifei Chen, Andrew Cain, Mohamed Abdelrazek
	An Empirical Study of Teaching Qualities of Popular Computer Science and Software Engineering Instructors Using RateMyProfessor.com DataSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Aliaksei Kavalchuk, Alec Goldenberg, Ishtiaque Hussain
	An Interactive Learning Method to Engage Students in ModelingSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Stephan Krusche, Nadine von Frankenberg, Lara Marie Reimer, Bernd Bruegge
	Authentic Individual Assessment for Team-based Software Engineering ProjectsSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Laura Tubino, Andrew Cain, Jean-Guy Schneider, Dhananjay Thiruvady, Niroshinie Fernando
	Characterizing the Pedagogical Benefits of Adaptive Feedback for Compilation Errors by Novice ProgrammersSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Umair Z. Ahmed, Nisheeth Srivastava, Renuka Sindhgatta, Amey Karkare
	Enriching Programming Student Feedback with Audio CommentsSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Jake Renzella, Andrew Cain
	Exploiting Group Shuffling Dynamics to Convey the Importance of Good Software DesignSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Jose Benedetto, Jaime Navon
	GidgetML: An Adaptive Serious Game for Enhancing First Year Programming LabsSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Michael Miljanovic, Jeremy Bradbury
	Innovation and Active Learning for Training Mobile App DevelopersSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Fabio Binder, Regina Albuquerque, Sheila Reinehr, Andreia Malucelli
	Presenting and Evaluating the Impact of Experiential Learning in Computing Accessibility EducationSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Yasmine El-Glaly, Weishi Shi, Samuel Malachowsky, Qi Yu, Daniel Krutz
	Sidekicks and Superheroes: A Look into Student Reasoning about Concurrency with Threads versus ActorsSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Aubrey Lawson, Eileen Kraemer
	Teaching Software Engineering for AI-Enabled SystemsSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Christian Kaestner, Eunsuk Kang
	Towards an Open Repository for Teaching Software Modeling applying Active Learning StrategiesSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Williamson Silva, Bruno Gadelha, Igor Steinmacher, Tayana Conte
	Turn up the Heat!: Using Heat Maps to Visualize Suspicious Code to Help Students Successfully Complete Programming Problems FasterSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Bob Edmison, Stephen Edwards
	Understanding DevOps Education with Grounded TheorySEET Software Engineering Education and Training Candy Pang, Abram Hindle, Denilson Barbosa
	Using Public and Free Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) based Lightweight Projects for Software Architecture EducationSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Zheng Li
	VeriSIM: A Learning Environment for Comprehending Class and Sequence Diagrams using Design TracingSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Prajish Prasad, Sridhar Iyer
	We should teach our Students what Industry doesn’t wantSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Kevin Ryan
	What prevents Finnish women from applying to software engineering roles? A preliminary analysis of survey dataSEET Software Engineering Education and Training Annika Wolff, Antti Knutas, Paula Savolainen Pre-print