DevOps Education: An Interview Study of Challenges and Recommendations
Marcelo Fernandes, Samuel Ferino, Anny Fernandes, Uira Kulesza,, Eduardo Aranha, Christoph Treude
TL;DR
This study explores the main challenges and recommendations in DevOps education through interviews with educators, providing insights to improve teaching methods and identify research opportunities in the field.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive analysis of challenges and recommendations for DevOps teaching, based on interviews with educators from diverse backgrounds.
Findings
Identified 83 challenges in DevOps education
Collected 185 recommendations for teaching DevOps
Mapped associations and conflicts between challenges and recommendations
Abstract
Over the last years, the software industry has adopted several DevOps technologies related to practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery. The high demand for DevOps practitioners requires non-trivial adjustments in traditional software engineering courses and educational methodologies. This work presents an interview study with 14 DevOps educators from different universities and countries, aiming to identify the main challenges and recommendations for DevOps teaching. Our study identified 83 challenges, 185 recommendations, and several association links and conflicts between them. Our findings can help educators plan, execute and evaluate DevOps courses. They also highlight several opportunities for researchers to propose new methods and tools for teaching DevOps.
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