TJTS5901 Continuous Software Engineering (5 cr)
Description
Systems are ultimately evaluated based on the value they deliver to their users and stakeholders. To increase the value, systems are subject to fast-paced evolution, due to many reasons. To address this situation, agile practices advocate flexibility, efficiency, and speed. Continuous software engineering refers to the organizational capability to develop, release, and learn from software in several parallel cycles, typically hours, days, or very small numbers of weeks. This includes determining new functionality to build, evolving and refactoring the architecture, developing the functionality, validating it, and releasing it to customers, and collecting experimental feedback from the customers to inform the next cycle of development. In this course, students will study the continuous delivery model and apply it in a practical project. The development of the work is guided by the Essence framework and students are exposed to cross-cutting research which spans from the area of process and organizational aspects in software engineering to technical aspects in the individual phases of the software engineering lifecycle.
Learning outcomes
After the completion of the course, the student understands the dynamics of continuous software engineering principles and practices. The students are able to apply continuous delivery workflow in practice using the Essence vocabulary and terminology. The student is able to experiment with building a deployment pipeline and manage the continuous release planning process. The student understands the transition process from software engineering to continuous software engineering.
Additional information
The course involves lectures, guest-lectures, exercises, and practical project work. There is no exam in the course.
Literature
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- Ivar Jacobson, Harold "Bud" Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Paul E. McMahon, Michael Goedicke. (2019) .The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering, Morgan & Claypool