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International Workshop on Software Engineering Aspects of Continuous Development and New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment

DEVOPS 2018: Software Engineering Aspects of Continuous Development and New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment pp 89–99Cite as

DevOps is Simply Interaction Between Development and Operations

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Based on a systematic literature review and interviews with six organizations regarding their use of DevOps, we take a look at a number of differing perspectives on what DevOps entails. We argue for a definition of DevOps as simply being “interaction between development and operations”. This simple definition implies that DevOps is not a new thing which only certain organizations practice, but rather a fundamental characteristic of software and systems engineering that every organization is confronted with and manages to a certain extent.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my master thesis supervisors Maya Daneva and Chintan Amrit, my PhD supervisor Kenji Suzuki, and my current employer Japan’s Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for their continued support.

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  1. Robot Innovation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

    Floris Erich

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  1. University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Jean-Michel Bruel

  2. Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

    Manuel Mazzara

  3. Innopolis University and Politecnico di Milano, Innopolis, Russia

    Bertrand Meyer

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Erich, F. (2019). DevOps is Simply Interaction Between Development and Operations. In: Bruel, JM., Mazzara, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Software Engineering Aspects of Continuous Development and New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment. DEVOPS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11350. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06019-0_7

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