Application of Software Engineering Techniques to the Advanced Laboratory of the Cooperative Course

Abstract – Practical Software Engineering courses are generally dealt with software system development. Students apply the waterfall life cycle to realize their project. The environment which supports the course is rigid and it does not allow to explore variability of software processes and techniques. This work presents one solution utilized in Software Engineering Advanced Laboratory of Computing Engineering Course of Escola Politécnica of University of São Paulo. Its environment has been conceived to offer to the students at the last degree of course a project environment based on Capacity Maturity Model and Unified Process. The project teams are organized into software factories and the students have opportunity to simulate real project environments