Shaikh Muhammad Khalid
Department of Computer Science, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Karachi Pakistan.
Heliyon. 2021 Apr 10;7(4):e06629. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06629. eCollection 2021 Apr.
This research paper answers the question that how shall the students of software engineering undergraduate courses form teams for the capstone projects that can be cohesive too. In this research, 128 criteria for team formation are proposed for building teams for self-managing software engineering capstone projects. A comparison is also conducted to ascertain the level of cohesion among those teams that were formed using the proposed criteria and those that were not formed using the proposed criteria. The criteria were identified through a combination of qualitative questionnaire survey targeted at the graduated students of the past batches of Computer Science degree program and through synthesizing the literature on engineering capstone project teams identified under the guidance of KSAO framework for software engineering students. To check the effectiveness of the criteria, 100 students were asked to form the teams using the proposed criteria and other 100 students formed the teams without the proposed criteria. Those students that had used the proposed criteria for building teams and those that had formed teams without using the proposed criteria were asked to fill the modified Group Environment Questionnaire to ascertain the level of cohesion among the team members. The results were analyzed qualitatively and through descriptive quantification. The results show that the level of cohesion in teams that were formed using the proposed team building criteria was higher. There was a need for team building criteria in the literature on software engineering capstone project teams that conforms to a conceptual, theoretical framework; this gap is now filled through this research. This paper may also serve as a literature review paper for some readers.
本研究论文回答了软件工程本科课程的学生应如何为最终项目组建具有凝聚力的团队这一问题。在本研究中，提出了128条团队组建标准，用于组建自我管理的软件工程最终项目团队。还进行了一项比较，以确定使用所提出的标准组建的团队与未使用所提出的标准组建的团队之间的凝聚力水平。这些标准是通过针对过去几批计算机科学学位课程的毕业生进行的定性问卷调查，并结合在软件工程学生的KSAO框架指导下确定的关于工程最终项目团队的文献综合得出的。为检验这些标准的有效性，100名学生被要求使用所提出的标准组建团队，另外100名学生在不使用所提出的标准的情况下组建团队。那些使用所提出的标准组建团队的学生和那些未使用所提出的标准组建团队的学生被要求填写修改后的团队环境问卷，以确定团队成员之间的凝聚力水平。对结果进行了定性分析和描述性量化分析。结果表明，使用所提出的团队组建标准组建的团队凝聚力水平更高。软件工程最终项目团队的文献中需要符合概念性、理论框架的团队建设标准；本研究填补了这一空白。本文对一些读者来说也可作为一篇文献综述论文。
