The use of comic strips in the teaching of software engineering

Computer Science students usually carry practical activities for the identification of software requirements and for understanding the organization business rules. Within this context, during the last two years we have conducted a project with software industry and Computer Science students, using comic strips to support the software requirements specification. We created a method of scenario simulation for the use of comic strips and a language for requirements specification using comic strips. We also proposed a Guide for comic strips to support students and professionals creating software requirements. For the academia, we conducted two experiments, to verify the students' understanding of software requirements using comic strips and to get students to create comic strips for specifying software requirements using our methodology. The results of these experiments were evaluated very positively. This work aims to present our methodology, the grammar language and a guide for the creation of comic strips, and the results of the experiments conducted with Computer Science students.