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An Approach to Software Architecting in Agile Software Development Projects in Education

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Software Architecture (ECSA 2015)

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The architecting activities in agile software development methods are weakly defined and even sometimes neglected. While there is sufficient literature on how software architectures and the architecting activities could be approached in agile projects, there is little information on how this topic should be treated in the education of software engineering students. In this paper, we propose an approach to the architecting activities in agile software projects in a bachelor software engineering course. The approach is inspired by theoretical and industry sources and is tailored to fit our educational goals and context. Our first experiences from the application of the approach show improved and deepened treating of software architectures, clarity on the purpose of the executed architecting activities, and improved student motivation.

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  1. Software Engineering, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Samuil Angelov & Patrick de Beer

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  3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Ivica Crnkovic

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Angelov, S., de Beer, P. (2015). An Approach to Software Architecting in Agile Software Development Projects in Education. In: Weyns, D., Mirandola, R., Crnkovic, I. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23727-5_13

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