Prepare Students for Software Industry: A case study on an agile full stack project

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Metrôlho, José Carlos
Ribeiro, Fernando Reinaldo
Batista, Rodrigo
Graça, Paula

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José Carlos Metrôlho, Fernando Reinaldo Ribeiro, Rodrigo Batista, Paula Graça, Prepare Students for Software Industry: A Case Study on an Agile Full Stack Project, in proceedings of The Seventeenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, 16 a 20 outubro 2022, Lisboa, Portugal.

978-1-61208-997-3

2308-4235

Prepare Students for Software Industry: A case study on an agile full stack project

agile software development; cognitive services; form recogniser; Scrum; software engineering; invoice

2022-11-22T09:42:40Z
2022-11-22T09:42:40Z
2022-10-16

Reducing the gap between Software Engineering education and the needs in the software industry is a goal for Academia. Advancement in terms of cutting-edge technical skills and good soft skills preparation is the desired goal to shorten the onboarding in the labour market. Generally, in computer science or computer engineering courses, separate subjects exist to teach requirements engineering, analysis and design, coding, or validation. However, integrating all these phases normally requires experience in developing a complete project. The approach presented in this paper has involved the staff of a software company in collaboration with the staff of an academic Institution and resulted in a student's involvement in a full-stack software development project. The student was involved in an agile team composed of teachers and Information Technology (IT) professionals. Scrum framework was followed, and the product was developed using a low-code development platform. Results show that this agile and full stack approach allows students to develop cutting-edge technical and non- technical skills. The paper presents the approach, the achieved results, some lessons learned and some guidelines for the future.
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