Técnicas de Experimentación en la Enseñanza de Métodos de Estimación de Software

Currently, a large number of controlled experiments are being conducted in academic environments to evaluate the effectiveness of methods or techniques proposed. Most of these experiments have the main objective to obtain data to provide empirical evidence of the utility of these methods for researchers often ignoring the educational objectives of this type of activity. This paper presents an experience in the application of experimental techniques in teaching methods for estimating software undertaken as part of a course of software development in the Computer Engineering degree at the Polytechnical University of Valencia. Unlike what has been the usual in experiments conducted in the field of Software Engineering, this paper describes how controlled experiments can be designed taking into account the objectives of researchers and teachers.