Observations of Global Software Engineering Classes During the Pandemic: Students' Perspective

ABSTRACT

In addition to traditional technical skills, like modeling in UML, programming, databases and APIs, students of software engineering also need to learn how to work effectively in physically separated teams. The global nature of the software industry also requires students to learn to communicate with team members and stakeholders in different countries, with different cultures. Travel restrictions imposed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have made it very difficult for students to spend a semester abroad. To enable students to gain international experience without leaving their home countries, a distributed course on global software engineering was conducted by two universities. Experiences with a focus on the student's perspectives are presented. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.