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 Marilia dos Santos Forghieri Pereira, Luís Ferreira Pires

2017

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lopes de Souza P., Francisco do Prado A., Lopes de Souza W., Pereira S. and Ferreira Pires L. (2017). Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 449-458. DOI: 10.5220/0006336804490458

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis17,
author={Pedro Lopes de Souza and Antonio Francisco do Prado and Wanderley Lopes de Souza and Sissi Marilia dos Santos Forghieri Pereira and Luís Ferreira Pires},
title={Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={449-458},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006336804490458},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Combining Behaviour-Driven Development with Scrum for Software Development in the Education Domain
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Lopes de Souza P.
AU - Francisco do Prado A.
AU - Lopes de Souza W.
AU - Pereira S.
AU - Ferreira Pires L.
PY - 2017
SP - 449
EP - 458
DO - 10.5220/0006336804490458