Part 0: Introduction

This series of blog entries describes a student project focused on developing an application by using methods like pair programming, test driven development and deployment pipelines.

Once upon a time, which was about one and a half months ago, an illustrious group of three students found together, united by the shared interest to learn more about systems engineering and software development in the aptly named course “System Engineering and Management”.

As we had to choose a project to work on for the course, we decided to explore modern, professional development methodologies as employed in software development companies.
In particular, we wanted to focus on pair programming and test driven development with unit tests for the actual coding, as well as using a build and deployment pipeline for continuous integration, supported by tools and a version control system.
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