Teaching Agile Model-Driven Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems

Agile development methods, model-driven engineering, and cyber-physical systems are important topics in software engineering education. It is not obvious how to teach their combination while respecting individual challenges posed to students and educators. We have devised a software project class for teaching the agile MDE for CPS. The project class was held in three different semesters. In this paper, we report on the setup of our exploratory study and its goals for teaching. We base our evaluation and insights on interviews and questionnaires. Our results show the feasibility of combination of agile MDE for CPS but also the challenges this combination poses to students and educators.