TEACHING DEVOPS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES USING AN AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Keywords:
automated programming assessment system, continuous integration, DevOps, software engineering education
Abstract
The software industry has seen a shift in recent years, with the adoption of agile development practices, the deployment of cloud-based, and service-oriented applications using DevOps. This has led to increased pressure on educators in higher education institutions to provide students with the best possible preparation for their careers, based on industry best practices. The research proposed a new approach to bridge the gap between in-class exercises and industrial practices by introducing an automated programming assessment system, ProgEdu. ProgEdu simulates the continuous integration pipeline of DevOps, incorporating unit testing and code quality assessment. It is deployed as a service-oriented application on Docker, allowing students to gain practical experience in a real-world setting. Our approach goes beyond simply assessing code, as we have also incorporated the service-oriented architecture, continuous integration pipeline, and Docker of the system to illustrate various DevOps practices in our software engineering classes. By providing hands-on exercises that utilize industry-standard tools and techniques, we can bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, helping students to extensively understand fundamental concepts and prepare for the demands of the modern workforce.
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Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON),
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students for professional practice. In: 2019
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Covington, KY, USA. IEEE; 2019. p.1–5.
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USA: Association for Computing Machinery; 2015.
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cloud in the classroom. In: Proceeding of the
44th ACM technical symposium on Computer
science education. New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery; 2013. p.639-644.
https://doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445386
Published
20-July-2023
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Nguyen B-A, Ha Thi T-V. TEACHING DEVOPS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES USING AN AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING ASSESSMENT SYSTEM. journal [Internet]. 20Jul.2023 [cited 22Dec.2024];13(6). Available from: https://journal.tvu.edu.vn/tvujs_old/index.php/journal/article/view/2104
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