Crossing the Software Education Chasm

Cloud computing and the shift in the software industry toward Software as a Serviceb (SaaS) using Agile development has led to tools and techniques that are a much better match to the classroom than earlier software development methods. While new college graduates are good at coding and debugging, employers complain about other missing skills that are equally important. In the Agile Manifesto, small teams of developers continuously refine a working but incomplete prototype until the customer is happy with the result, with the customer offering feedback with every iteration. Once students learn the classic steps of software development and have a positive experience in using them via Agile, they will use these key software engineering principles in other projects no matter which methodology is used. SimpleCov measures test coverage, saikuro measures cyclomatic complexity of the code, flog measures code assignment-branch-condition complexity, reek comments on code quality by highlighting code smells.