Journal article
An empirical study of architecting for continuous delivery and deployment
M Shahin, M Zahedi, MA Babar, L Zhu
Empirical Software Engineering | SPRINGER | Published : 2019
Abstract
Recently, many software organizations have been adopting Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices to develop and deliver quality software more frequently and reliably. Whilst an increasing amount of the literature covers different aspects of CD, little is known about the role of software architecture in CD and how an application should be (re-) architected to enable and support CD. We have conducted a mixed-methods empirical study that collected data through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 21 industrial practitioners from 19 organizations, and a survey of 91 professional software practitioners. Based on a systematic and rigorous analysis of the gathered qualitat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank all participants in this study. This work is partially supported by Data61, a business unit of CSIRO, Australia. The first author is also supported by Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. We also greatly appreciate the hard work and time spent by the anonymous reviewers and the handling editor in providing insightful comments and help us to improve the manuscript.