On the role of software architecture in DevOps transformation: an industrial case study

Mojtaba Shahin; M. Ali Babar

doi:10.1145/3379177.3388891

On the role of software architecture in DevOps transformation: an industrial case study

Mojtaba Shahin
, M. Ali Babar

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

Development and Operations (DevOps), a particular type of Continuous Software Engineering, has become a popular Software System Engineering paradigm. Software architecture is critical in succeeding with DevOps. However, there is little evidence-based knowledge of how software systems are architected in the industry to enable and support DevOps. Since architectural decisions, along with their rationales and implications, are very important in the architecting process, we performed an industrial case study that has empirically identified and synthesized the key architectural decisions considered essential to DevOps transformation by two software development teams. Our study also reveals that apart from the chosen architecture style, DevOps works best with modular architectures. In addition, we found that the performance of the studied teams can improve in DevOps if operations specialists are added to the teams to perform the operations tasks that require advanced expertise. Finally, investment in testing is inevitable for the teams if they want to release software changes faster.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software and System Processes, ICSSP 2020
Editors	Eray Tüzün, Paul Clarke
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	175-184
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375122
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3379177.3388891
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	International Conference on Software and System Processes 2020 - Virtual, Korea, South Duration: 10 Oct 2020 → 11 Oct 2020 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3379177 (Proceedings) http://dbsi.hdu.edu.cn/icssp2020/ (Website)

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Conference	International Conference on Software and System Processes 2020
Abbreviated title	ICSSP 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, South
Period	10/10/20 → 11/10/20
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3379177 (Proceedings) http://dbsi.hdu.edu.cn/icssp2020/ (Website)

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Case Study
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Software Architecture

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Shahin, M & Babar, MA 2020, On the role of software architecture in DevOps transformation: an industrial case study. in E Tüzün & P Clarke (eds), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software and System Processes, ICSSP 2020. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 175-184, International Conference on Software and System Processes 2020, Korea, South, 10/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379177.3388891

On the role of software architecture in DevOps transformation: an industrial case study. / Shahin, Mojtaba; Babar, M. Ali.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software and System Processes, ICSSP 2020. ed. / Eray Tüzün; Paul Clarke. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 175-184.

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