An Experience Report of the Cones: An RPG for Learning Software Product Construction

Abstract

Software Engineering is a discipline in which academics learn to carry out the planning and development of quality software. Among the notable difficulties encountered in their teaching are ways of learning that encourage academics and make them implement the knowledge necessary to be used in the industry. In this context, it is important to make use of effective games so that the teaching-learning process can both transmit its concepts and motivate students. Based on this, this work presents an experience report of the use of ConES, an RPG game that was applied in a class of Computer Science undergraduates to verify if the game can be used satisfactorily as a teaching aid tool of Software Engineering. Initial analyzes of the questionnaire applied to the participants indicate that ConES manages to instigate participants to learn more about the area and encourage creativity in solving proposed problems.