Scrum XPerience: um protótipo de jogo voltado para o ensino de metodologias ágeis

• Autor(a) principal: Aragão, Paulo André Pimenta
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/216173
• topic: Agile software development; Software architecture; Educational game prototype; Ensino de metodologias ágeis; Arquitetura de software; Protótipo de jogo educativo

Software Engineering is a relevant area for software development, defining techniques and methodologies that contribute to the quality assurance of the final product and the organization of the system's production. Among the two strands of existing development methods, traditional and agile, the use of agile methodologies stands out, especially the Scrum and XP methodologies, to increase the speed of software production and promote acceptance of changes in requirements. In this context, it is relevant to contribute to the solid formation of future software developers, given the necessary knowledge for them to apply agile principles properly. However, the use of traditional methods for the teaching of the vast theoretical framework involving Software Engineering promotes small dynamics and practice. It results, for the most part, in demotivating students, harming their education. As a solution for this problem, educational software emerged, especially educational games, promoting dynamic and fun teaching for students. Given the importance of such games for the teaching-learning process of Software Engineering, it is relevant that their development has a consolidated conceptual basis. So, this work presents an architectural model for educational games aimed at teaching agile Scrum and XP methodologies. In addition, an educational game prototype was developed to assess the applicability of the established architecture for the development of future educational games. This prototype was evaluated by 30 undergraduate and graduate students in Computing and six professors working in Software Engineering area, who contributed to identifying problems and suggestions of improvements and pointed out the positive aspects of the work. Thus, it was possible to conclude that the prototype developed contributes to the learning of agile methodologies, the advancement of research, and the development of educational games aimed at this area.