Students Create Software Factory for Capstone Project

Two SIE students are part of an Interdisciplinary Capstone team that is giving the College of Engineering’s newest degree program, software engineering, a technological boost. Team 22012 developed a proof-of-concept software factory – a cloud-based development platform. 

The College of Engineering Software Factory capstone team prototyped a platform to help the program’s students gain experiences to compete in the workforce. The platform provides the tools students need to collaborate with ease through each phase of the software development lifecycle.

That cycle, explained team lead and systems engineering major Vincent Giacoppo, consists of developing project requirements; translating them into models; planning development; writing code; testing to make sure the code works – and that code written by different developers works together; and finishing, assembling and deploying the code. 

The five-student team also included industrial engineering major Meshari Hamad R Al Dossary and engineering management major Ali Tavakoly, as well as electrical and computer engineering majors Roberto Kupps and Jeremiah Michael Weber.

The College of Engineering Software Factory enables one team to take a project from ideation to deployment, rather than the outdated model of employing different groups for development and operations.

“It's really bringing students into the modern way of doing engineering,” Giacoppo said.