Our DevOps Survey has just been published!

We are happy to announce that our article A Survey of DevOps Concepts and Challenges has been published in the Volume 52, Issue 6 of ACM Computing Surveys, a very reputable journal in our field.

In this Survey, we thoroughly analyze 50 relevant peer-reviewed articles on DevOps, while also considering other sources of information, to:

• provide a definition of DevOps (a collaborative and multidisciplinary effort within an organization to automate continuous delivery of new software versions, while guaranteeing their correctness and reliability);
• develop a set of DevOps conceptual maps (Figure 1), which can assist people from industry and academia to make sense of the area;
• relate DevOps tools to the discovered DevOps concepts, emphasizing that tools adoption must be supported by conceptual decisions;
• discuss practical implications of DevOps for engineers, managers, and researchers;
• present four relevant and unresolved DevOps challenges:
  • How to re-design systems toward continuous delivery
  • How to deploy DevOps in an organization
  • How to assess the quality of DevOps practices in organizations
  • How to qualify engineers for DevOps practice