Test Usability (Activity)

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Title An HFOSS Learning Module for a CS2 Course
Overview Students will learn HFOSS concepts and principles and then perform and document usability tests of the OpenMRS user interface
Prerequisite Knowledge All prequisite knowledge will be provided within the module itself
Learning Objectives Students will understand how to contribute to open source communities, to do usability tests, to understand the relationship between interfaces and underlying objects

Background:

Is there background reading material?
Because we assume students know nothing about HFOSS, we will provide a sequence of readings to give them background knowledge. The background reading will start with articles describing:

  • what open source is
  • the concept of community
  • the various ways in which one can contribute
  • the concepts of issues, bugs, and tickets
  • (maybe other things we will discover as we work this out)

Are there other activities the student should have done first?
Students will not have to do any activities prior to the assigned ones.

What is the rationale for this activity?
Students in a typical CS2 course have little or no knowledge of FOSS or HFOSS and only elementary coding and software design ability, and do not necessarily know the programming languages in which various (H)FOSS projects are written, but we would like to give them a sufficiently interesting and productive experience in HFOSS so that they will be motivated to become more active in HFOSS projects as they progress in their careers. We believe that introducing HFOSS in a CS2 course is beneficial because they will then be prepared and hopefully motivated in more advanced courses to contribute in more advanced ways.

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Directions:

What should the student do?


Deliverables:

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Assessment:

How will the activity be graded?

How will learning will be measured?

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Criteria Level 1 (fail) Level 2 (pass) Level 3 (good) Level 4 (exceptional)
The purpose of the project
Why the project is open source

Comments:

What should the instructor know before using this activity?

What are some likely difficulties that an instructor may encounter using this activity?


Additional Information:

ACM Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit What ACM Computing Curricula 2013 knowledge area and units does this activity cover? ACM_Body_of_Knowledge
ACM Topic What specific topics are addressed? The Computing Curriucula 2013 provides a list of topics - https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
Level of Difficulty Is this activity easy, medium or challenging?
Estimated Time to Completion How long should it take for the student to complete the activity?
Materials/Environment What does the student need? Internet access, IRC client, Git Hub account, LINUX machine, etc.?
Author Who wrote this activity?
Source Is there another activity on which this activity is based? If so, please provide a link to the original resource.
License Under which license is this material made available? (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)

Suggestions for Open Source Community:

Suggestions for an open source community member who is working in conjunction with the instructor.



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