Abstract

Software development sessions are a source of information to understand the software evolution. In the field of software engineering education, tracking the development software projects is usually applied using a control system version or a particular strategy. However, this information is generally lost in control system version, because the checkin/checkout model do not allow users to recover the particular changes or actions between two commits. In academic scenarios, the control system versions do not offer the registration of events and student actions that can be useful for the teaching-learning process. In this article we present an exploratory case study in a software development course at the University of Talca using BlueLogger. BlueLogger is a plugin for Netbeans IDE that allows teachers to discover software development habits using a remote monitoring system. We obtain several findings about habits that students apply in software project development sessions in terms of activity time, effective programming, work timeline and technical actions/events.