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Journal of Software Evolution and Process Special Issue on: __________________________ “DevOps Quality Engineering” __________________________
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20477481
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DevOps is recently emerging as a disruptive series of principles and practices that reduce the amount of time between software refactoring and operationally deploying changes. DevOps principles and tools also primarily aim at strengthening the collaboration and organisational processes between software development and operations engineers in the process of speedily making a design refactoring actionable in operations as well. On one hand, the goal of this tighter collaboration is to deliver the software product faster to its production environment, by whatever means, procedures, or tools. On the other hand, establishing and certifying the quality of outcoming software and processes is strained by the “need for speed”.
For example, one of the pillars of DevOps approaches for building software fast is the utilisation of automations along its creation toolchain, passing through testing, packaging, release, deployment, monitoring, and runtime management. The achievement of these automations is assisted by techniques for software continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure-as-code, and more. However, the quality assessment of both software product and development process, which in traditional software lifecycles are relatively mature fields, in DevOps contexts suffers from the presence of automated steps that cannot be easily analyzed with conventional means. Hence, DevOps quality assurance techniques are far from being mature, and are often limited to expensive trial-and-error exercises.
In terms of impact of both DevOps as a whole and DevOps quality engineering in the specific, DevOps practitioners and academicians envision that the DevOps culture is drastically changing the technical, processes, and educational procedures and patterns in Software Engineering to accomodate for the radical shift that the family of methodologies and tools entail. For example, Gartner estimates that DevOps processes will drive over 80% of the industrial-strength tech on the market.
we seek novel contributions on any quality aspects, quality evaluations, fallacies, or pitfalls arising or playing a role in the context of DevOps Processes and organisational structures. Suggested topics of interest for these papers include, but are not limited to:
- Methods and models for software quality assessment in DevOps - Techniques for software quality improvement in DevOps - Tools for quality assessment and/or improvement during DevOps developments - Experiences on the impact of software quality engineering in DevOps - Experiences on the impact of DevOps practices in consolidated Quality engineering processes. - Emergent Quality Properties of DevOps Architectures - Analysing, Testing, or otherwise assessing the Quality of DevOps Processes - DevOps Tools, that is, tools or technical approaches that fit in the DevOps paradigm - Qualities of skills and human aspects of DevOps engineers; - Quality and Quality assessment of DevOps processes; - Quality of Education of DevOps engineers; - Continuous Aspects of Quality Assurance; - Qualities changed or introduced by DevOps practices, e.g., quality of Infrastructures and quality of Infrastructure-as-Code; - Quality of DevOps Architectural Styles, e.g., Microservices Quality;
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 28th JANUARY 2019 Initial Notification: APRIL 2019 Final Notification: JULY 2019
GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Diego Perez (diego.perez@lnu.semailto:diego.perez@lnu.se) - Linnaeus University Dr. Damian A. Tamburri (d.a.tamburri@tue.nlmailto:d.a.tamburri@tue.nl) - Technical Univ. Eindhoven - Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Damian A. Tamburri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
TU/e - JADS - https://www.jads.nl/ Sint Janssingel 92, s’Hertogenbosch Room 2.18, 2nd Floor
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Social Media Team Leader, IEEE Software Secretary, OASIS TOSCA Standard Technical Committee Secretary, IFIP - WG 2.14 / 6.12 / 8.10 on Service-Oriented Systems
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