Introducing High School Students to Version Control, Continuous Integration, and Quality Assurance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03914v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 21:44:11 GMT
• Title: Introducing High School Students to Version Control, Continuous Integration, and Quality Assurance
• Authors: Joseph Latessa, Aadi Huria, Deepak Raju
• Abstract summary: Two high school students volunteered in our lab at Wayne State University where I'm a graduate research assistant and Ph.D. student in computer science. The students had taken AP Computer Science but had no prior experience with software engineering or software testing. This paper documents our experience devising a group project to teach the requisite software engineering skills to implement automated tests.
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• Abstract: Software Engineering concepts such as version control, continuous integration, and unit testing are often not presented in college computer science curriculums until the third year of study, after completing several semesters of programming courses. Throughout the summer of 2023, two high school students volunteered in our lab at Wayne State University where I'm a graduate research assistant and Ph.D. student in computer science. The students had taken AP Computer Science but had no prior experience with software engineering or software testing. This paper documents our experience devising a group project to teach the requisite software engineering skills to implement automated tests that meaningfully contribute to open-source scientific computing projects developed in connection with our lab. We describe the concepts covered, tools used, and software tests written in this early introduction to software engineering while maintaining shared emphases on education and the deployment of our work.

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