Building a Community System to Teach Collaborative Software Development

This paper reports an Open Source Software (OSS) community for Computer Science students to support collaborative software development activities. We built an inhouse version control system using only OSS products, which allows students to easily collaborate on development projects, while simultaneously allowing instructors to easily track students' activities. As our system provides a controlled educational environment, students can experience various aspects of software development by playing different roles. In addition, the community's code repository works as a knowledge base for student projects, and thus students can reuse the code and artifacts as examples or basic frameworks for their development.