Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

Pedro Lopes de Souza; Antonio Francisco do Prado; Wanderley Lopes de Souza; Sissi Pereira; Luís Ferreira Pires

doi:10.5220/0006336804490458

Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

Pedro Lopes de Souza, Antonio Francisco do Prado, Wanderley Lopes de Souza, Sissi Pereira, Luís Ferreira Pires

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)

1 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Most of the Brazilian universities employ teaching-learning methodologies based on classic frontal lectures. The Medicine Programme of the Federal University of S˜ao Carlos (UFSCar) is an exception, since it employs active learning methodologies. The Educational and Academic Management System for Courses Based on Active Learning Methodologies (EAMS-CBALM) was built and it is currently used to support this programme, and has been made available for other programmes as well. This system was developed using Scrum, but during its development project it was often necessary to reconsider system behaviour scenarios, and consequently the product backlog items, mainly due to poor communication between the Product Owner (PO) and the development team. This paper discusses a case study in which Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) has been used in combination with Scrum to redesign some EAMS-CBALM components. The paper demonstrates that the communication between the PO and the development team can be improved by using BDD as a communication platform to unambiguously define system requirements and automatically generate test suites.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017)
Editors	Slimane Hammoudi, Michal Smialek, Olivier Camp, Joaquim Filipe
Place of Publication	Setúbal
Publisher	SCITEPRESS
Pages	449-458
Number of pages	10
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	978-989-758-248-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0006336804490458
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Event	19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017 - Porto, Portugal Duration: 26 Apr 2017 → 29 Apr 2017 Conference number: 19 http://www.iceis.org/Home.aspx?y=2017

Conference

Conference	19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017
Abbreviated title	ICEIS 2017
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	26/04/17 → 29/04/17
Internet address	http://www.iceis.org/Home.aspx?y=2017

Access to Document

10.5220/0006336804490458

Cite this

Lopes de Souza, P., Francisco do Prado, A., Lopes de Souza, W., Pereira, S., & Ferreira Pires, L. (2017). Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain. In S. Hammoudi, M. Smialek, O. Camp, & J. Filipe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017) (Vol. 2, pp. 449-458). SCITEPRESS. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006336804490458

Lopes de Souza, Pedro ; Francisco do Prado, Antonio ; Lopes de Souza, Wanderley et al. / Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017). editor / Slimane Hammoudi ; Michal Smialek ; Olivier Camp ; Joaquim Filipe. Vol. 2 Setúbal : SCITEPRESS, 2017. pp. 449-458

@inproceedings{d8198779b0a14bba81d3db5b6d0f5f45,

title = "Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain",

abstract = "Most of the Brazilian universities employ teaching-learning methodologies based on classic frontal lectures. The Medicine Programme of the Federal University of S˜ao Carlos (UFSCar) is an exception, since it employs active learning methodologies. The Educational and Academic Management System for Courses Based on Active Learning Methodologies (EAMS-CBALM) was built and it is currently used to support this programme, and has been made available for other programmes as well. This system was developed using Scrum, but during its development project it was often necessary to reconsider system behaviour scenarios, and consequently the product backlog items, mainly due to poor communication between the Product Owner (PO) and the development team. This paper discusses a case study in which Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) has been used in combination with Scrum to redesign some EAMS-CBALM components. The paper demonstrates that the communication between the PO and the development team can be improved by using BDD as a communication platform to unambiguously define system requirements and automatically generate test suites.",

author = "{Lopes de Souza}, Pedro and {Francisco do Prado}, Antonio and {Lopes de Souza}, Wanderley and Sissi Pereira and {Ferreira Pires}, Lu{\'i}s",

year = "2017",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.5220/0006336804490458",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-989-758-248-6",

volume = "2",

pages = "449--458",

editor = "Slimane Hammoudi and Michal Smialek and Olivier Camp and Joaquim Filipe",

booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017)",

publisher = "SCITEPRESS",

note = "19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017, ICEIS 2017 ; Conference date: 26-04-2017 Through 29-04-2017",

url = "http://www.iceis.org/Home.aspx?y=2017",

}

Lopes de Souza, P, Francisco do Prado, A, Lopes de Souza, W, Pereira, S & Ferreira Pires, L 2017, Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain. in S Hammoudi, M Smialek, O Camp & J Filipe (eds), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017). vol. 2, SCITEPRESS, Setúbal, pp. 449-458, 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017, Porto, Portugal, 26/04/17. https://doi.org/10.5220/0006336804490458

Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain. / Lopes de Souza, Pedro; Francisco do Prado, Antonio; Lopes de Souza, Wanderley et al.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017). ed. / Slimane Hammoudi; Michal Smialek; Olivier Camp; Joaquim Filipe. Vol. 2 Setúbal: SCITEPRESS, 2017. p. 449-458.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

AU - Lopes de Souza, Pedro

AU - Francisco do Prado, Antonio

AU - Lopes de Souza, Wanderley

AU - Pereira, Sissi

AU - Ferreira Pires, Luís

N1 - Conference code: 19

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - Most of the Brazilian universities employ teaching-learning methodologies based on classic frontal lectures. The Medicine Programme of the Federal University of S˜ao Carlos (UFSCar) is an exception, since it employs active learning methodologies. The Educational and Academic Management System for Courses Based on Active Learning Methodologies (EAMS-CBALM) was built and it is currently used to support this programme, and has been made available for other programmes as well. This system was developed using Scrum, but during its development project it was often necessary to reconsider system behaviour scenarios, and consequently the product backlog items, mainly due to poor communication between the Product Owner (PO) and the development team. This paper discusses a case study in which Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) has been used in combination with Scrum to redesign some EAMS-CBALM components. The paper demonstrates that the communication between the PO and the development team can be improved by using BDD as a communication platform to unambiguously define system requirements and automatically generate test suites.

AB - Most of the Brazilian universities employ teaching-learning methodologies based on classic frontal lectures. The Medicine Programme of the Federal University of S˜ao Carlos (UFSCar) is an exception, since it employs active learning methodologies. The Educational and Academic Management System for Courses Based on Active Learning Methodologies (EAMS-CBALM) was built and it is currently used to support this programme, and has been made available for other programmes as well. This system was developed using Scrum, but during its development project it was often necessary to reconsider system behaviour scenarios, and consequently the product backlog items, mainly due to poor communication between the Product Owner (PO) and the development team. This paper discusses a case study in which Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) has been used in combination with Scrum to redesign some EAMS-CBALM components. The paper demonstrates that the communication between the PO and the development team can be improved by using BDD as a communication platform to unambiguously define system requirements and automatically generate test suites.

U2 - 10.5220/0006336804490458

DO - 10.5220/0006336804490458

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-989-758-248-6

VL - 2

SP - 449

EP - 458

BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017)

A2 - Hammoudi, Slimane

A2 - Smialek, Michal

A2 - Camp, Olivier

A2 - Filipe, Joaquim

PB - SCITEPRESS

CY - Setúbal

T2 - 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2017

Y2 - 26 April 2017 through 29 April 2017

ER -

Lopes de Souza P, Francisco do Prado A, Lopes de Souza W, Pereira S, Ferreira Pires L. Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain. In Hammoudi S, Smialek M, Camp O, Filipe J, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017). Vol. 2. Setúbal: SCITEPRESS. 2017. p. 449-458 doi: 10.5220/0006336804490458

Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain

Abstract

Conference

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this