Assesment Proposal of Soft Skills in Software Engineering Through University-Industry Collaboration Projects

Abstract

Software engineering deals with technical concepts of computer science and soft skills like communication, negotiation and teamwork for implementing high quality software products. Hence, software engineering teaching and learning process is oriented to development of technical and social or soft skills. Several teaching and learning strategies trying to accomplish this goal through student participation in university-industry collaboration projects. However, the definition of assessment methods for soft skills is still absent in many of such strategies. In this paper an assessment proposal of soft skills in software engineering teaching is presented. This proposal is associated to the implementation of university- industry software projects as teaching and learning strategy.