Software Engineering Education Meets DevOps: an Experience Report

Abstract

DevOps is one of the mainstream topics in the software industry nowadays. Because of this, in recent years, some universities have started to include DevOps related content in their programs. In some cases, specific DevOps courses were created while in other cases DevOps topics were included in existing ones. This article describes an experience of including DevOps topics in a Software Engineering advanced course. Details of the practices and tools covered are provided along with explanations of the teaching approach and the cloud services used to deliver the course.