Engineering Software as a Service: An Agile Approach Using Cloud Computing

Second Edition, 2.0b6

Armando Fox and David Patterson

March 30, 2021

If you’re nostalgic for the Welcome from the First Edition, you can read it at

http://www.saasbook.info/welcome-1st-edition1.

We created the First Edition of ESaaS in 2014 to help other instructors and students of software engineering practice what we had discovered: Agile+SaaS is not just a great way to develop and deploy software, it’s also a great fit for teaching software engineering. We have been humbled by the success of the book, the accompanying instructor materials (for which visit saasbook.info2), and the Massive Open Online Courses on edX as a way of “spreading the word!”

What's New: COD, CHIPS, and Codio

This Second Edition has an improved structure (in our opinion) as well as substantial revisions to nearly half of the material.

COD and CHIPS. Most of the book’s sections are Content-Oriented Didactics (COD): the conceptual vocabulary that shows the learner how to think about an important idea. Interspersed after every few COD sections are Coding/Hands-on Integrated Programming activities (CHIPS), where students learn by doing, applying the ideas of the COD sections in hands-on exercises. Each CHIPS has a rating from one to three “aqueducts” reflecting the relative time and effort required to complete it.

All-in-one course using Codio. We have worked closely with Codio to integrate COD, CHIPS, and autograding into their education-focused IDE. We strongly urge instructors or students to use Codio to get started as quickly as possible, including built-in autograding for most of the CHIPS and a preconfigured curated environment with the correct versions of all tools needed. Visit codio.com/esaas3 to get started. If you’re not using Codio, the starter code and student-facing documentation for each CHIPS are available in a public GitHub repository whose name is given as part of each CHIPS, and instructors can visit saasbook.info to gain access to reference solutions and Gradescope-compatible autograders.