Problem-based learning. An experience on the inclusion of quality problems in Educational Software Engineering

This article presents an experience developed with students of fourth year of the Computer Engineering major with the support of educative software in the teaching-learning process of quality problems in Software Engineering. It also incorporates a procedure as a guide during their laboratory practices to perform the process of quality measurement to software selected as case studies with the support of the tool developed. It shows that the development of educative software based on the pedagogical model of Problem-Based Learning, PBL, promotes in university students the motivation towards the search and production of knowledge in virtual spaces and environments with innovative characteristics. The results of the analysis of opinions of specialists in software development, as well as of professors who teach the subject, indicate that the computer tool contributes to self-improvement through the requirement of the use of specialized tools in quality issues in order to perform the or the roles in the execution of a project, mainly in the workflows dedicated to quality management.