DevOps has been identified as an important aspect in the continuous deployment paradigm in practitioner communities and academic research circles. However, little has been presented to describe and formalize what it constitutes. The absence of such understanding means that the phenomenon will not be effectively communicated and its impact not understood in those two communities. This study investigates the elements that characterize the DevOps phenomenon using a literature survey and interviews with practitioners actively involved in the DevOps movement. Four main dimensions of DevOps are identified: collaboration, automation, measurement and monitoring. An initial conceptual framework is developed to communicate the phenomenon to practitioners and the scientific community as well as to facilitate input for future research.

Lucy Ellen Lwakatare, Pasi Kuvaja, Markku Oivo (University of Oulu): Dimension of DevOps.

Presented at XP2015 in Helsinki, 26.5.2015, published 16.5.2015

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_19