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Adopting DevOps Practices in Quality Assurance.

The article considers computer software development and sogtware life cycle management. The obsolescence of the traditional pattern of waterfall development in which development, quality assurance and operations were separate functions, with development and operations now merged into a single functi...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 11; pp. 38 - 44
Main Author: ROCHE, JAMES
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2013
Subjects:
Computer software development
Software architecture
Computer software quality control
Software reliability
Computer software industry
Quality assurance
Software engineering
Software engineering management
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article considers computer software development and sogtware life cycle management. The obsolescence of the traditional pattern of waterfall development in which development, quality assurance and operations were separate functions, with development and operations now merged into a single function known as DevOps is discussed. It is noted that there is no set definition of DevOps among software engineers. The increased standardization within the computer software industry of the product development process is discussed.