DevOps benefits: A systematic literature review

Abstract

Among current IT work cultures, DevOps stands out as one of the most adopted worldwide. The focus of this culture is on bridging the gap between development and operations teams, enabling collaborative effort toward quickly producing software, without sacrificing its quality and support. DevOps is used to tackle a variety of issues; as such, there are differing benefits reported by authors when performing their analysis. For this research, we aim to reach consensus on the DevOps benefits reported in existing literature. To accomplish this objective, two systematic literature reviews. The first intends to find all benefits reported in the literature, while the second review will be used to map the benefits found in the first one with DevOps implementation case studies, providing empirical evidences of each benefit. To strengthen the results, the concept‐centric approach is used. During this research it was possible to observe that the most reported benefits are aligned with the DevOps premises of better collaboration between developers and operators, delivering software and products quicker. Based on DevOps implementation case studies, most reported benefits include a faster time to market as well as improvements in synergy and automation. Less reported benefits include a reduction in failed changes and security issues.

Secure Change Management Process: On the Effectiveness of DevSecOps

“…An extensive analysis of profile papers and publications by authors R. G. Lennon [50], S. R. Goniwada [51], J. Faustino [52], M. A. Shameem [53], W. R. Nichols [54], K. A. Rassmann [55], J. Díaz [56], allows us to identify the benefits of implementing DevSecOps tools in traditional software production processes (Figure 12): -improvement of the software product quality at the customer (higher customer value), due to the optimization of the processes of andate and software kernel updates, taking into account the increase of security qualities; -reduced time spent on cybersecurity testing procedures (reduced time for security checks), due to the high level of automation of test operations in the DevSecOps system; Informational and analytical review of publications by M. A. Akbar [58], T. Scanlon [59], C. W. Carol Woody [60], D. W. Hallock [61], K. Siau [62] regarding the hindering reasons in the full implementation of DevSecOps organizational and management system in software-digital production processes, points out that although DevSecOps offers a new methodology to solve problems between DevOps and cybersecurity, and makes security a task for everyone in the development process, transition from DevOps to DevSecOps is not easy and requires a culture or mindset change, new management, work processes and process must be established, and new technology must be adopted. Here, the challenge of implementing DevSecOps breaks down into two major challenges: -technical problem of DevSecOps implementation; -the corporate-developer problem of DevSecOps implementation.…”