Software Engineering Principles for Courseware Development

Abstract

Courseware development should follow the lessons learned by the misnamed software engineers during the last twelve years. Many of these lessons are presented as twenty-eight principles of software development in this paper. The most important include a stress on human readability, the importance of early planning and analysis, the use of hierarchical structure, the need for independent evaluation, and the need to be flexible.

Keywords::

• software development
• courseware development

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Kenneth Magel

Dr. Kenneth Magel is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Missouri-Rolla. He received his doctorate from Brown University in 1977. His present research activities are in the areas of software engineering and program optimization.