Design and Evaluation of an Agile Framework for Continuous Education in Software Engineering
Patrick Wolfschwenger, Bárbara Sabitzer, Zsolt Lavicza · 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) · 2022
This Research-To-Practice Full Paper presents an agile framework that was created and evaluated in the context of a continuous professional training and development program in the IT industry. It was designed with the values and principles of Agile Software Development in mind and provides a learning concept to become acquainted with DevOps and Cloud Computing practices. While DevOps promises to build, test and release software faster and more reliably through methods like continuous integration, continuous deployment/delivery, automated testing and infrastructure-as-code, the integration of Cloud Computing services empowers each step of the agile life cycle through ubiquitous access to computing resources that can be provisioned with minimal effort. The paper describes the experiences of creating and applying the didactic concept as well as observations of conducted work, learning progress, motivation and achievements.