CSD learning objectives

Learning objectives for Certified Scrum Developer course (more info here):

Architecture and Design

Study of architecture and design, focusing primarily on the principles that better enable testability and ease refactoring

• Principles of architecture in an agile environment
• Design practices on an agile team
• Principles that enable testability and ease refactoring

Collaboration

An in-depth look at the way agile teams work together.

• Working together as one team
• Including the customer in the process
• Pair programming

Test Driven Development

• Test driven development (TDD) as a design approach
• Red-green-refactor cycle
• Unit testing principles and practices
• What makes good tests/measuring test effectiveness

Continuous Integration

An introduction to the key practices of continuous integration:

• Single command build
• Creating builds that are automated, self-testing, and fast
• The importance of a single source repository
• Increasing visibility & automating deployment

Refactoring

An introduction to the practice of refactoring:

• When to refactor
• Refactoring for maintainability
• Refactoring to patterns