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This paper describes the use of Agile Testing Quadrants, using Scrum Agile Method in a collaborative software project named Big Data, Internet of Things, and Agile for Accidents and Crises (BD-ITAC). It applies the Scrum agile method and its best practices, the Hadoop ecosystem, and cloud computing for the management of emergencies, involving monitoring, warning, and prevention. It reports the experience of students, during the first semester of 2016, from three different courses on the graduate program in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - ITA). The major contribution of this work is the academic application of Agile Testing Quadrants for Problem-Based Learning. The students worked asynchronous and geographically dispersed to deliver valuable increments. This work was performed during four project Sprints on just sixteen academic weeks. The main project output was a working, developed, and tested software.
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The authors would like to thank: the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA); the Casimiro Montenegro Filho Foundation (FCMF); and the 2RP Net Enterprise, for their support and infrastructure to the development of this BD-ITAC project, allowing its Proof of Concept (PoC) in an academic and simulated real environment.
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de Castro Martins, J. et al. (2018). Agile Testing Quadrants on Problem-Based Learning Involving Agile Development, Big Data, and Cloud Computing. In: Latifi, S. (eds) Information Technology - New Generations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 558. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_56
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