Quality Assurance for Open Source Software Configuration Management

Meyer, Stefan; Healy, Philip D.; Lynn, Theo; Morrison, John P.

doi:10.1109/synasc.2013.66

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“…Well-known testing techniques in ASD, such as test automation, are also crucial in CD in order to achieve continuous testing [1,31,34,54,59,61,32,37,47,56,48,76,9,60]. According to our primary studies, test automation ensures: (a) quality of software through extensive test coverage [34,54], (b) continuous integration and release of quality software [59,37,47,48] and (c) provide early feedback to the development team [37] so that issues are resolved and root causes eliminated [32].…”

Section: Test Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous deployment of software intensive products and services: A systematic mapping study

Rodríguez

Haghighatkhah

Lwakatare

et al. 2017

Journal of Systems and Software

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BACKGROUND-The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that evolves through releases every few months is being replaced by the continuous evolution of software functionality. OBJECTIVE-This study aims to classify and analyse the literature related to continuous deployment in the software domain in order to scope the phenomenon, provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, investigate the scientific evidence in the reported results and identify areas suitable for further research. METHOD-We conducted a systematic mapping study and classified the continuous deployment literature. The benefits and challenges related to continuous deployment were also analysed. RESULTS-The systematic mapping study includes 50 primary studies published between 2001 and 2014. An in-depth analysis of the primary studies revealed ten recurrent themes that characterize continuous deployment and provide researchers with directions for future work. In addition, a set of benefits and challenges of which practitioners may take advantage were identified. CONCLUSION-Overall, although the topic area is very promising, it is still in its infancy, thus offering a plethora of new opportunities for both researchers and software intensive companies.

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Section: Test Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous deployment of software intensive products and services: A systematic mapping study

Rodríguez

Haghighatkhah

Lwakatare

et al. 2017

Journal of Systems and Software

198

153

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“…One key aspect of open source software is that it becomes more reliable if a lot of people use it and review the code. The same is true for frequently used configuration specifications [12]. Managing large system landscapes can also be achieved by configuring virtual machines as templates that are reused.…”

Section: A Configuration Management Toolsmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…These concepts include bootstrapping physical machines with network boot mechanisms, automatically assigning IP addresses via the DHCP protocol, and configuring the application stack using the configuration management tool. Meyer et al [12] propose an automated quality assurance service for configuration specifications. In the context of this paper this would mean quality assurance for Puppet modules.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A report would then be published which can for instance be used in a catalog for configuration specifications. Meyer et al [12] also list quality issues for configuration specifications. Errors often occur because of operating system heterogeneity.…”

Section: Previous Research On Configuration Management Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In future work, it should be investigated whether or not this is a viable alternative to using configuration modules. Also, future work should follow the proposed concept by Meyer et al [12]. They propose an automated quality assurance service for configuration modules, which addresses the complexity-challenge of configuration modules that is more prominent than in variant production of physical goods.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Quality Assurance for Open Source Software Configuration Management

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Continuous deployment of software intensive products and services: A systematic mapping study

Continuous deployment of software intensive products and services: A systematic mapping study

Modularization of Software as a Service Products: A Case Study of the Configuration Management Tool Puppet

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