Research and design in project based case object: using XML

XV Pengfei, YANG Cheng
(College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China)

Abstract: Aiming at meeting the demand for domestic software college, especially meeting the needs of case teaching in software engineering courses, projectbased case learning system(PBCLS) had been proposed, designed, developed, which would be able to simulate the process of real project. As the core data structure, projectbased case object(PBCO) is carrying the function of describing, defining, disseminating projectbased case knowledge, and it is also an important guarantee of the implementation of PBCLS. Furthermore, to define the structure of PBCO, organization and structure of project had been analyzed and refined, and common attributes and features had been extracted. Based on powerful knowledge representation capability of XML, PBCO has been described and defined by using XML, then a practical teaching case has been provided. The test results indicate that this method is capable of defining and describing some ordinary projects, at the meanwhile, it ensures the realization of PBCLS.
Key words: projectbased case object(PBCO); eXtensible Maxkup Ianguage(XML); XML schema