Abstract:

Software Process Improvement (SPI) for postgraduates and undergraduated students in software schools is an very important class. One of the question is how students could master principles of SPI in short time and have abilities to play in enterprise’s roles and improve the engineering capability of corporations in the future. This paper firstly reviews history about SPI teaching, then, summarize and discuss the related text books and references and the representative teaching methods of SPI in international, as well as education on engineering of software development early in China. The paper describes the structures of our SPI textbook which include not only SPI methods, but also stories from a massivescale project and several corporations of China. Afterwards, we discuss the tailoring of textbooks contents, teaching methods, and important and difficult points on teaching of our methods. In the end, the experiences and lessonlearned from several classes in two software schools are concluded.

Key words: process improvement;teaching;practice;CMM;CMMI