Embedding Quality Assurance in project-based learning

TL;DR

This paper shares lessons learned from over ten years of teaching software quality in Agile/Scrum project courses, offering recommendations for integrating quality assurance into project-based learning.

Contribution

It provides practical insights and recommendations for embedding quality assurance topics into Agile/Scrum project-based learning environments based on extensive teaching experience.

Findings

Effective strategies for teaching quality assurance in Agile projects

Recommendations for integrating QA topics into project courses

Lessons learned from a decade of teaching experience

Abstract

In this paper, we share our lessons learned from more than a decade of teaching software quality aspects within Software Engineering (SE) courses, where the focus is on Agile/Scrum settings: final year software development projects and the course on SE Project Management. Based on the lessons learned, we also provide a number of recommendations on embedding quality assurance topics in the project-based learning with Agile/Scrum context.