Capstone Software Engineering Students Can Develop a High-Quality Complex System: A Case Study With Umple

Abstract

Umple is an open-source programming technology developed almost entirely by students, the majority of whom were working on it as their capstone project through a program called UCOSP. We describe our development process for Umple that has provided a rich educational experience for the students, while at the same time continually improving Umple’s quality. We also describe features of Umple that have been designed to facilitate its use in teaching software engineering.

Experiential Learning for Software Engineering using Agile Modeling in Umple

“…In this, students are given Umple assignments, where they can create models and generate small running systems. The second is the capstone course [7] where students experience Umple development first-hand as they work on the Umple compiler itself (which is written in Umple).…”