Interdisciplinarity and Agile Development: A Case Study on Graduate Courses

Author

da Costa Guerra, Valdir ; Segeti, Eliezer ; Hino, Fabiano ; Kfouri, Fabio ; Stege Mialaret, Lineu Fernando ; Vieira Dias, Luiz Alberto ; Da Cunha, Adilson Marques

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Inst. Tecnol. de Aeronaut. (ITA), São José dos Campos, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

7-9 April 2014

Firstpage

622

Lastpage

623

Abstract

This article aims to describe a successful experiment involving Courses Interdisciplinarity, Agile Methods, and Agile Tests in a Problem-based Learning, applied at different courses of the graduate program of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology, to improve the process of teaching/learning and to reduce the resources involved.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; further education; software prototyping; teaching; Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology; agile development; agile methods; agile tests; computer engineering; course interdisciplinarity; electronics engineering; graduate courses; graduate program; problem-based learning; teaching; Computer science; Control systems; Education; Information technology; Prototypes; Software; Testing; Agile Methods; Agile Testing; Interdisciplinarity; Problem-based Learning; Scrum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3187-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2014.49

Filename

6822270