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Thesis goals

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Requires: Nothing

This page lists the sub-tasks of the master’s thesis Tools for Supporting DevOps Fundamentals Teaching as stated in the task formulation (Section 1.2 of the thesis) and links the chapters that address them.

Source. The authoritative source is the thesis text in the dp.mykyta.olym/thesis repository. A short overview of the chapters is in the Thesis section.

Sub-tasks

#	Task	Chapter	Status
1	Analyse the team assignment requirements and separate conditions a program can check from those the teacher judges.	2. Analysis of the team assignments	Done
2	Examine existing tools for automated assessment, repository analytics and change checking.	3. Existing tools	Done
3	Verify which data GitLab sends through webhooks and which must come from the REST API, and set the limits of interpreting them.	4. Getting data from GitLab	Done
4	Design the architecture, data flow and security boundaries of a platform that does not touch student repositories.	5. Design of the GitPulse platform	Done
5	Build a prototype with course import, synchronisation, configurable checks and overviews.	6. Implementation	Done, running on the public instance
6	Design an evaluation that separates technical correctness from pedagogical effect and prepare it with the target group.	7. Evaluation methods	Method ready, measurements in winter 2026/2027 and from February 2027

Tasks and this documentation

Task	Documentation section
1 and 2	Project overview, Thesis
3	GitLab integration
4 and 5	Architecture, Developers, API, Classroom assistant
6	Evaluation in teaching, Operators

Design principles

Event-driven. GitPulse receives GitLab webhooks and fetches details through the REST API. Nothing changes on the GitLab side and student repositories are only read; only the optional classroom assistant writes, under the course’s own account.
A student over a term. Checks R01 to R13 follow a student’s work across their merge requests, not a single change.
The teacher decides. A check result carries an explanation and a link to GitLab and is not a grade.