Tool Usage in Students’ Software Projects
Pekka Mäkiaho, Timo Poranen
- School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere
- 33014, University of Tampere, Finland
- {pekka.makiaho, timo.t.poranen}@uta.fi
Abstract
Software tool selection and usage play an important role in software development. Selecting, and then using, right tools makes development process faster and thus the product quality will get better. In this paper we evaluate tool selection process and tool usage in 14 students’ software development projects. Data was collected from final reports and from three questionnaires filled by team members during the projects. On average, the teams used fourteen different tools during their projects. Main reason to select a tool was previous experience of one or more team members. Most common reason to change a tool to another was that not all team members were committed to use the first selected tool.