Qualifying software engineers undergraduates in DevOps - challenges of introducing technical and non-technical concepts in a project-oriented course

The constant changes in the software industry, practices, and methodologies impose challenges to teaching and learning current software engineering concepts and skills. DevOps is particularly challenging because it covers technical concepts, such as pipeline automation, and non-technical ones, such...

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Vydáno v:2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET) s. 144 - 153
Hlavní autoři: Alves, Isaque, Rocha, Carla
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Piscataway, NJ, USA IEEE Press 25.05.2021
IEEE
Edice:ACM Conferences
Témata:
Agile-software-development
DevOps
education
Emerging-domains-of-software
Empirical-software-engineering
FOSS
Industries
Open-source
OSS
Pipelines
Project management
Social and professional topics
Social and professional topics > Professional topics
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education > Computing education programs
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education > Computing education programs > Computer science education
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Computing education > Computing education programs > Software engineering education
Software
Software and its engineering
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Collaboration in software development
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Collaboration in software development > Programming teams
Software engineering
Tools-and-environments
Training
DevOps
open source
education
Agile software development
FOSS
empirical software engineering
OSS
emerging domains of software
tools and environments
ISBN:0738133205, 9780738133201, 1665401389, 9781665401388
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Shrnutí:The constant changes in the software industry, practices, and methodologies impose challenges to teaching and learning current software engineering concepts and skills. DevOps is particularly challenging because it covers technical concepts, such as pipeline automation, and non-technical ones, such as team roles and project management. The present study investigates a course setup to introduce these concepts to software engineering undergraduates. We designed the course by employing coding to associate DevOps concepts to Agile, Lean, and Open source practices and tools. We present the main aspects of this project-oriented DevOps course, with 240 students enrolled it since its first offering in 2016. We conducted an empirical study, with both a quantitative and qualitative analysis, to evaluate this project-oriented course setup. We collected the data from the projects repository and students' perceptions from a questionnaire. We mined 148 repositories (corresponding to 72 projects) and obtained 86 valid responses to the questionnaire. We also mapped the concepts which are more challenging to students learn from experience. The results evidence that first-hand experience facilitates the comprehension of DevOps concepts and enriches classes discussions. we present a set of lessons learned, which may help professors better design and conduct project-oriented courses to cover DevOps concepts.
ISBN:0738133205
9780738133201
1665401389
9781665401388
DOI:10.1109/ICSE-SEET52601.2021.00024