Background

DevOps program is a tool that can help break a software programming project down into smaller achievable subtasks and visualize the workflow [1]. In a college-level group project environment, students often experience difficulty working in a team because they aren’t guided clearly or because they get pushed aside due to other members over-contributing. Pfaff and Huddleston’s research shows that absence of a “free-rider” problem was one of the significant predictors of attitudes toward teamwork [2]. A free-rider in the context of a group project is someone who does not contribute to the project but reaps the benefit of submitting one. The group work process can be streamlined through the use of a clear DevOps process. Other times, project specifications within a CS class are very open-ended and make it difficult for a team to figure out how to go about tackling the problem at hand. Learning how to break down a larger project into smaller parts via a tool such as DevOps can optimize the in-class group project experience by making the software development process faster and more effective [3].