Study Guide

Objective

- you are able to act as an independent developer and a member of a team in an ICT project that is based on an external assignment.
- you are able to evaluate your own and your group's development activities.
- you are familiar with and are able to evaluate and develop agile development methods in the implementation of an ICT project (eg game development, application development or digital business development project)
- you are able to evaluate and further develop the use of tools related to project work (requirements management, version and product management, testing automation)
- you know the importance of quality of activities and results in ICT projects.
- you know and are able to measure and improve quality in the development of project work.
- know and be able to apply automation solutions to support different stages of development work (eg testing, infrastructure management, integration and publication management)
- you deepen your knowledge of the additional competencies related to optional studies and the technology requirements of the project assignment.

Content

- Management and evaluation of agile development activities based on assignments.
- Advanced requirements, product and configuration management.
- Requirements, product and configuration management tools.
- Automation of software and ICT development projects (eg DevOps, IT process Automation).
- Test environments and basics of test process design, automated testing methods and environments.
- Dependency management
- Optional content required on the basis of optional studies and assignments (game programming, application development and digital business, intelligent automation).

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

- you are able to act as an independent developer and a member of a team in an ICT project that is based on an external assignment.
- you are able to evaluate your own and your group's development activities.
- you are familiar with and are able to evaluate and develop agile development methods in the implementation of an ICT project (eg game development, application development or digital business development project)
- you are able to evaluate and further develop the use of tools related to project work (requirements management, version and product management, testing automation)
- you know the importance of quality of activities and results in ICT projects.
- you know and are able to measure and improve quality in the development of project work.
- know and be able to apply automation solutions to support different stages of development work (eg testing, infrastructure management, integration and publication management)
- you deepen your knowledge of the additional competencies related to optional studies and the technology requirements of the project assignment.

Content

- Management and evaluation of agile development activities based on assignments.
- Advanced requirements, product and configuration management.
- Requirements, product and configuration management tools.
- Automation of software and ICT development projects (eg DevOps, IT process Automation).
- Test environments and basics of test process design, automated testing methods and environments.
- Dependency management
- Optional content required on the basis of optional studies and assignments (game programming, application development and digital business, intelligent automation).

Teaching methods

Capsized game project for those specializing in Game Development

Participating this course requires you to sign digitally the Project Agreement involving sharing rights to developed assets within Capsized project, that allows including, but not limited to, development of the said project in the future using cumulatively produced assets throughout all integrated courses: Network and Multiplayer Game Development, Advanced Game Development and Artificial Intelligence in Games.

Contents

Developing a online multiplayer game features in respect to design guidelines
Adapting development method to game project (roles and responsibilities in a game project)
Requirements, product and configuration management for a game project
Maintainable project asset management in game engine
Game build automation using Azure Devops
Designing and implementing tests for game features, utilization of automated testing (unit testing)
Project component dependency management (such as plugins)

Employer connections

Potential game development expert lectures are planned to be organized during the course.

Exam schedules

Course does not have final exam, and it is replaced by skills demonstration by accomplished project work. First skills demonstration must be returned by the end for course. Course will have two re-examinations, and the required skills demonstration in each re-examination must be returned by the end of re-examination time window. Enrolling to re-examinations as instructed on course workspace.

Student workload

Total study time 133h

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Skills demonstration is evaluated using each learning objective defined for this course. Each learning objective yields a score between 0 and 5, according to skills demonstration. Total score from learning objectives defines final course grade. Learning objectives are graded using three levels:

Entry level (1):

You know and understand what contents in learning objectives are all about, and how they work.

Advanced level(3):

You know and understand what contents in learning objectives are all about, and how they work.
You are able to apply contents in learning objectives into at least on different case, in respect to materials presented in learning environment.

Professional level (5)

You know and understand what contents in learning objectives are all about, and how they work.
You are able to create at least one completely different solution using content in learning objectives, or apply them into least one completely different situation, in respect to materials presented in learning environment.
You are able to evaluate and give reasoning why your applied method or solution to a new situation is applicable and worth doing.

Reaching learning objectives and their levels must be presented using method defined in learning environment, using either video and voice, or in writing.

Grading is affected by participation activity and contributions to project work, feedback from peers and have development tasks fulfilled according to assigned project role. Detailed grading will be published in the beginning of the course.