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Quality Aspects in DevOps Development at QUATIC 2018
The 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information
and Communications Technology
Track on Quality Aspects in DevOps Development
https://sites.google.com/view/quatic2018/thematic-tracks/track-quality-aspects-in-devops-development
September 4-7, 2018, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Aim and scope
The Track on Quality Aspects in DevOps Development is part of the
he 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and
Communications Technology (QUATIC 2018), which is a leading
biennial scientific conference that gathers experts from industry
and academia to exchange ideas and approaches regarding all
quality aspects in ICT systems engineering and management. The
forum is dedicated to a live discussion on how to further the
state-of-the-art and define future directions, as well as to
disseminate advanced new methods, techniques and tools.
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
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 trivially analyzed with conventional means. Hence,
DevOps quality assurance techniques are far from being mature, and
are often limited to expensive trial-and-error exercises.
This thematic track of the QUATIC 2018 conference seeks to shed
light over the synergies and challenges in DevOps quality
engineering. In so doing, we seek novel contributions on any
quality aspects, quality evaluations, fallacies, or pitfalls
arising or playing a role in the context of DevOps. Suggested
topics of interest 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;
-Paper submission instructions
Authors should submit to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2018 a PDF
version of their paper. Full Papers must be in CPS format (
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
) and not exceed 9 pages, including figures, references, and
appendices. Work In Progress (WIP) works with relevant preliminary
results are limited to 4 pages. Submissions must be original and
will be reviewed by the Track Program Committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the electronic proceedings of QUATIC’2018
published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), subject to one
of the authors registering for the conference. The authors of the
best papers of this thematic track will be invited to present
their papers at the main track of the conference for the wider
audience.
- Important dates
Paper submission: Friday, April 20, 2018
Author's notifications: Friday, May 25, 2018
Camera ready submission: Friday, June 15, 2018
-Proceedings publication
As in the previous editions, papers accepted at the Thematic
Tracks will be published by the Conference Publishing Services
(CPS). Previous editions have been published by CPS (from 2007
onward), and CEUR (until 2004) and are included in IEEEXplore,
Scopus/Elsevier, ACM Digital Library, and DBLP. The American
Society for Quality has partnered with QUATIC in the publication
of special issues in the Software Quality Professional journal.
More information at:
https://sites.google.com/view/quatic2018/call-for-papers
- Program Committee:
Radu Calinescu, University of York
Mauro Caporuscio, Linnaeus University
Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila
Michele Ciavotta, University of Milano Bicocca
Martin Garriga, Politecnico di Milano
Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John Klein, SEI / CMU
Philipp Leitner, Chalmers University Gothenburg
José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano
Fabio Palomba, University of Zurich
Uwe Zdun, University of Vienna
-Track Chairs:
Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Damian Andrew Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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