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From Agile Development to DevOps: Going Towards Faster Releases at High Quality – Experiences from an Industrial Context

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Software Quality. Complexity and Challenges of Software Engineering in Emerging Technologies (SWQD 2017)

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DevOps promises advantages, such as faster time-to-market or higher quality. A company transforming itself towards DevOps needs guidance in order to ask and answer relevant questions and not waste time and effort. We state four key issues that companies should discuss before they start introducing DevOps concepts. Furthermore, we report on a project conducted by Fujitsu Enabling Software Technology GmbH (Fujitsu EST) and Fraunhofer IESE where the introduction of DevOps for one product was accompanied for roughly one year. We present the concrete goals, the procedure, first results, as well as observations and lessons learned. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first contributions that describe practical experiences in introducing DevOps, without concealing that a lot of thinking, tailoring, and learning is still required to further improve DevOps in the environment.

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Acknowledgment

We would like to thank all people from the Fujitsu EST DevOps team for their participation, and Torsten Lenhart and Sonnhild Namingha for proofreading.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Frank Elberzhager, Taslim Arif & Matthias Naab

  2. Fujitsu Enabling Software Technology GmbH, Schwanthalerstraße 75A, 80336, Munich, Germany

    Inge Süß & Sener Koban

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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Software Quality Lab GmbH, Linz, Austria

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Elberzhager, F., Arif, T., Naab, M., Süß, I., Koban, S. (2017). From Agile Development to DevOps: Going Towards Faster Releases at High Quality – Experiences from an Industrial Context. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Complexity and Challenges of Software Engineering in Emerging Technologies. SWQD 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49421-0_3

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