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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-aspec...

September 4-7, 2018, Coimbra, Portugal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- 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.htm... ) 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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