Continuous assessment in software engineering

European convergence towards European Higher Education Area demands an important innovation process in the academic assessment system. In this sense, a model-based of student-centred learning, as a continuous assessment methodology, presents some advantages which are exposed in this paper thanks to the introduction of an additional assessment in the subject of software engineering. This article presents the principles, structure, contents and process of continuous assessment developed in the software engineering course at the program of Computer Science Education at the University of Salamanca. It also presents the results of the evaluation process as well as appreciations from students and teaching team.