11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, Coimbra, Portugal

Abbrevation

QUATIC

Link

https://sites.google.com/view/quatic2018/thematic-tracks/track-quality-aspects-…

City

Coimbra

Country

Portugal

Deadline Paper

2018-04-20

Start Date

2018-09-04

End Date

2018-09-07

Abstract

The Track on Quality Aspects in DevOps Development is part of the he 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC 2018), which is a leading biennial scientific conference that gathers experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and approaches regarding all quality aspects in ICT systems engineering and management. The forum is dedicated to a live discussion on how to further the state–of–the–art and define future directions, as well as to disseminate advanced new methods, techniques and tools. DevOps is recently emerging as a disruptive series of principles and practices that reduce the amount of time between software refactoring and operationally deploying changes. DevOps principles and tools also primarily aim at strengthening the collaboration between software development and operations engineers in the process of speedily making a design refactoring actionable in operations as well. On one hand, the goal of this tighter collaboration is to deliver the software product faster to its production environment, by whatever means, procedures, or tools. On the other hand, establishing and certifying the quality of outcoming software and processes is strained by the "need for speed". This thematic track of the QUATIC 2018 conference seeks to shed light over the synergies and challenges in DevOps quality engineering. In so doing, we seek novel contributions on any quality aspects, quality evaluations, fallacies, or pitfalls arising or playing a role in the context of DevOps. A special issue is planned in the Journal of Software Evolution & Process immediately after the event is closed. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to: – Methods and models for software quality assessment in DevOps – Techniques for software quality improvement in DevOps – Tools for quality assessment and/or improvement during DevOps developments – Experiences on the impact of software quality engineering in DevOps – Experiences on the impact of DevOps practices in consolidated Quality engineering processes. – Emergent Quality Properties of DevOps Architectures – Analysing, Testing, or otherwise assessing the Quality of DevOps Processes – DevOps Tools, that is, tools or technical approaches that fit in the DevOps paradigm – Qualities of skills and human aspects of DevOps engineers; – Quality and Quality assessment of DevOps processes; – Quality of Education of DevOps engineers; – Continuous Aspects of Quality Assurance; – Qualities changed or introduced by DevOps practices, e.g., quality of Infrastructures and quality of Infrastructure–as–Code; – Quality of DevOps Architectural Styles, e.g., Microservices Quality;