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Journal of Software Evolution and Process
Special Issue on:
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“DevOps Quality Engineering”
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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.se<mailto:diego.perez@lnu.se>) - Linnaeus
University
Dr. Damian A. Tamburri
(
d.a.tamburri@tue.nl<mailto:d.a.tamburri@tue.nl>) -
Technical Univ. Eindhoven - Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Damian A. Tamburri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
TU/e - JADS -
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Email:
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Secretary, IFIP - WG 2.14 / 6.12 / 8.10 on Service-Oriented
Systems
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