Training future software developers to acquire agile development skills

Abstract

Students related to software development are motivated to acquire agile techniques by guiding them towards delivering large-scale systems. Agile techniques are rapidly transforming into adopted development methodology commercially. An advanced course - Information Systems Development Project (ISDP) is offered to the students of software engineering, database systems, and other related fields in which for the first time they experienced a simulated but realistic software development environment. Observations show that the agile techniques has positive impact on development progress and system quality. Some additional recommendations are derived, few of them are mandate function list, being pragmatic, conceptualizing unit testing before coding, and continuous integration of the system.