Designing software architecture to support continuous delivery and DevOps: A systematic literature review

Robin Bolscher; Maya Daneva

Designing software architecture to support continuous delivery and DevOps: A systematic literature review

Robin Bolscher
, Maya Daneva

Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services

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This paper presents a systematic literature review of software architecture approaches that support the implementation of Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps. Its goal is to provide an understanding of the state-of-the-art on the topic, which is informative for both researchers and practitioners. We found 17 characteristics of a software architecture that are beneficial for CD and DevOps adoption and identified ten potential software architecture obstacles in adopting CD and DevOps in the case of an existing software system. Moreover, our review indicated that micro-services are a dominant architectural style in this context. Our literature review has some implications: for researchers, it provides a map of the recent research efforts on software architecture in the CD and DevOps domain. For practitioners, it describes a set of software architecture principles that possibly can guide the process of creating or adapting software systems to fit in the CD and DevOps context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSOFT 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies
Editors	Marten van Sinderen, Leszek Maciaszek, Leszek Maciaszek
Publisher	SCITEPRESS
Pages	27-39
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9789897583797
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Event	14th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 26 Jul 2019 → 28 Jul 2019 Conference number: 14

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Conference	14th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2019
Abbreviated title	ICSOFT
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	26/07/19 → 28/07/19

Keywords

Continuous delivery
Continuous integration
Deployability
DevOps
Micro-services
Software architecture
Systematic literature review

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Bolscher, R & Daneva, M 2019, Designing software architecture to support continuous delivery and DevOps: A systematic literature review. in M van Sinderen, L Maciaszek & L Maciaszek (eds), ICSOFT 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies. SCITEPRESS, pp. 27-39, 14th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, 26/07/19.

Designing software architecture to support continuous delivery and DevOps: A systematic literature review. / Bolscher, Robin; Daneva, Maya.
ICSOFT 2019 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies. ed. / Marten van Sinderen; Leszek Maciaszek; Leszek Maciaszek. SCITEPRESS, 2019. p. 27-39.

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