A Pilot Study on Introducing Continuous Integration and Delivery into Undergraduate Software Engineering Courses

Abstract

As continuous delivery and continuous integration practices become more prevalent in industry, the need for education in these areas grows. Introducing these topics introduces complexities due to the learning curve of the involved tools and the amount of time available for teaching these topics. Furthermore, there has been limited research into effective teaching practices for incorporating continuous integration and delivery concepts into traditional software engineering courses. In this paper, we discuss the results of an initial study of introducing a continuous delivery educational pipeline into an undergraduate software engineering course. The pipeline used was designed to help instructors introduce continuous integration and delivery into preexisting courses and allow students to visually understand the processes of continuous delivery and continuous integration.