Marchetti, Emanuela

Valente, Andrea

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Rich pictures (RP) are common in object-oriented analysisand design courses, but students seem to have problems inintegrating them in their projects' workflow. A new softwaretool is being developed, specific for RP authoring. Tobetter understand students' issues and workingpractice with RP, and gather requirements for thetool, we followed a user-centered design approach andperformed a usability test with an early prototype. Thefindings suggest the presence of a gap between some of themodern object-oriented development practices and engineeringstudents' values: some techniques, like RP, presupposedesign skills that are alien to our students. To bridgethis gap our tool aims at making design-specific skillsoptional, enhancing the conceptual analytical skills thatsoftware analysis shares with design. Further studies willbe conducted to assess the impact of the tool on learning

SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR RICH PICTURES:How to Help OOAD Students Accept Rich Pictures within their Projects' Workflow

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SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR RICH PICTURES:How to Help OOAD Students Accept Rich Pictures within their Projects' Workflow

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