Course Outcomes

After undergoing this course, the students will be able to:

1. CO1: Understand concept of agile software engineering and its advantages in software development.
2. CO2: Explain the role of design principles in agile software design.
3. CO3: Define the core practices behind Scrum framework.
4. CO4: Understand key principles of agile software development methodology-Kanban.
5. CO5: Describe implications of functional testing, unit testing, and continuous integration.
6. CO6: Understand the various tools available to agile teams to test the project.

Detailed Syllabus

UNIT 1: Introduction - CO1

• Need of Agile software development
• History of Agile
• Agile context:
  • Manifesto
  • Principles
  • Methods
  • Values
• The benefits of agile in software development

Duration: 6 hours

UNIT 2: Agile Design Methodologies - CO2

• Fundamentals
• Design principles:
  • Single responsibility
  • Open-closed
  • Liskov-substitution
  • Dependency-inversion
  • Interface-segregation

Duration: 6 hours

UNIT 3: Scrum - CO3

• Introduction to scrum framework
• Roles:
  • Product owner
  • Team members
  • Scrum master
• Events:
  • Sprint
  • Sprint planning
  • Daily scrum
  • Sprint review
  • Sprint retrospective
• Artifacts:
  • Product backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Increments
• User stories:
  • Characteristics and contents

Duration: 8 hours

UNIT 4: Kanban - CO4

• Introduction to Kanban framework
• Workflow
• Limit the amount of work in progress
• Pulling work from column to column
• Kanban board
• Adding policies to the board
• Cards and their optimization

Duration: 6 hours

UNIT 5: Extreme Programming - CO5

• Basic values and principles
• Roles
• Twelve practices of XP
• Pair programming
• XP team
• Life cycle and tools for XP

Duration: 6 hours

UNIT 6: Agile Testing - CO6

• The Agile lifecycle and its impact on testing
• Test driven development:
  • Acceptance tests and verifying stories
  • Writing a user acceptance test
  • Developing effective test suites
• Continuous integration
• Code refactoring
• Risk based testing
• Regression tests
• Test automation

Duration: 6 hours

Suggested Readings / Books

1. Ken Schawber, Mike Beedle, "Agile Software Development with Scrum", Pearson
2. Robert C. Martin, "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns and Practices", Prentice Hall
3. Mike Cohn, "User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development", Addison Wesley Signature Series
4. Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams", Addison Wesley
5. Paul VII, "Agile: The Complete Overview of Agile Principles and Practices (Agile Product Management)"
6. Robert Martin, "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices", Pearson New International Edition
7. Greene Jennifer, "Learning Agile", O'Reilly Series

Detailed List of Tasks

1. Understand the background and driving forces for taking an Agile Approach to Software Development.
2. Build out a backlog and user stories.
3. To study and use automated build tool.
4. To study version control tool.
5. To study Continuous Integration tool.
6. Apply Design principle and Refactoring to achieve agility.
7. Perform Testing activities within an agile project.
8. Mini Project: based on tools