Teaching DevOps in Academia and Industry: Reflections and Vision

Bobrov, Evgeny; Bucchiarone, Antonio; Capozucca, Alfredo; Guelfi, Nicolas; Mazzara, Manuel; Masyagin, Sergey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39306-9_1

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“…Work at the University of Luxemburg [12] seems closer to what we have done, given its practical focus, but it is still structured as a traditional university module that spans several weeks. As described in Section III-E, the DevOps Lab lasts a single week (or two, if we consider the code review sessions to be part of the learning process), which we have found to be just the right amount of time for our students to pick up the essentials of DevOps, and build a basic set of skills.…”

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Threading DevOps Practices through a University Software Engineering Programme

Chatley

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2020

2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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In preparing students for a future career as software engineers, in addition to learning the fundamentals of Computer Science, we want them to develop a set of practical skills and professional ways of working. Current industry trends are towards the adoption of a DevOps culture, where software engineers are responsible not only for the design and development of software systems, but also for their deployment and operation in production. In this paper, we describe how we have introduced students to DevOps practices early in their degree programme, and then woven their use through many different projects as an underpinning thread. Rather than being taught in isolation, these professional practical skills are practised repeatedly through the degree, in different contexts, to the point where they almost become second nature. We describe concretely the structure of our introductory DevOps Lab exercise and how it is assessed, explain how DevOps skills are applied in later projects, and report on our experience so far of teaching these techniques in this manner.

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Threading DevOps Practices through a University Software Engineering Programme

Chatley

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2020

2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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“…• In the fourth assignment, students link GitHub and Google Cloud Platform to enable automated build and deployment support, allowing new images to be created and deployed when changes are pushed to GitHub. This uses the parts used in the third assignment, as well as Google Cloud Source Repositories 13 and Google Cloud Build 14 . Details of each of these assignments, including how the various processes and artifacts mentioned above are used, follow.…”

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“…Krusche and Alperowitz [11] describe a project course where continuous integration and continuous delivery techniques are introduced and used in support of real-world projects, while Süß and Billingsley [12] instead focus on using continuous integration as a feedback mechanism for classes with a large number of students but limited teaching resources. Benni et al [13] present a graduate-level course that includes both software architecture and DevOps principles in the context of a realistic software project, while Bobrov et al [14], [15] discuss both a graduatelevel DevOps course and industry training. Kuusinen and Albertsen [16] focus on both the technical and cultural aspects of DevOps and continuous delivery as part of a two week course taught with industry.…”

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Introducing DevOps Techniques in a Software Construction Class

Hills

2020

2020 IEEE 32nd Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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As more companies adopt techniques related to DevOps and continuous deployment, it is critical for students in software engineering courses to gain hands-on experience with these techniques. In this paper, we describe a collection of assignments given in a graduate software construction class that guides students through the process of creating Docker containers, configuring continuous integration services, constructing a build pipeline, and automating deployment of new versions of a software system when changes are committed to the code repository. We also briefly analyze the performance of students on these hands-on exercises, identifying areas where additional support is needed to ensure student success.

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“…We have been deeply involved in recent years in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students at the university, and junior/senior professional developers in industry. We have been also working often with management [46,5].…”

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“…However, until recently, not much attention was dedicated to integrating these principles into a distributed setting winning out properties such as easiness of deployment, a lightweight design and development phase, and minimal need for integration testing. The idea of Microservices [18,29] and Devops [3,5,46] stem out exactly from this widespread and recognized need.…”

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Size Matters: Microservices Research and Applications

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In this chapter we offer an overview of microservices providing the introductory information that a reader should know before continuing reading this book. We introduce the idea of microservices and we discuss some of the current research challenges and real-life software applications where the microservice paradigm play a key role. We have identified a set of areas where both researcher and developer can propose new ideas and technical solutions. The Shift Towards DistributionHistory of programming languages, paradigms and software architectures have been characterized in the last few decades by a progressive shift towards distribution, modularization and loose coupling. The purpose is to increase code reuse and robustness [17,29], ultimately a necessity dictated by the need of increasing software quality, not only in safety and financial-critical applications [39], but also in more common off-the-shelf software packages. The two directions of modularization 1 (code reuse and solid design) and robustness (software quality and formal methods: verification/correctness-by-construction) advanced to some extent independently and pushed by different communities, although with a non-empty overlap.

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Teaching DevOps in Academia and Industry: Reflections and Vision

Abstract: This paper describes our experience of delivery educational programs in academia and in industry on DevOps, compare the two approaches and sum-up the lessons learnt. We also propose a vision to implement a shift in the Software Engineering Higher Education curricula.

Cited by 20 publications

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Threading DevOps Practices through a University Software Engineering Programme

Threading DevOps Practices through a University Software Engineering Programme

Introducing DevOps Techniques in a Software Construction Class

Size Matters: Microservices Research and Applications

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