Integrating extreme programming with software engineering education

This paper presents an 11-step “myAgile” method that integrates the extreme programming (XP) with existing university courses, attempting to build a modern software engineering education. Compared with XP, “myAgile” covers more phases, such as requirement engineering, detailed design, and reverse engineering. There were 288 students in 4 universities in Taiwan who participated in this effort. The students rigorously applied the method to develop, and to maintain, an object-oriented Grade System project in Java. The results showed that, objectively, the students produced maintainable software, which was clearly shown in another maintenance project by a different team at a distant time after the development. And, subjectively, students reported high job satisfaction that is so desperately needed in this profession.