Towards an Evidence-Based Understanding of Electronic Data Sources

Chen, Lianipng; Babar, Muhammad Ali; Zhang, He

doi:10.14236/ewic/ease2010.17

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“…We queried six digital libraries, namely IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, SpringerLink, Wiley Online Library, ScienceDirect, and Scopus for retrieving the relevant papers. According to [36], these are the primary sources of literature for potentially relevant studies on software and software engineering. For all these libraries, except SpringerLink, we ran our search terms based on title, keywords and abstract.…”

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Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment: A Systematic Review on Approaches, Tools, Challenges and Practices

2017

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Context: Continuous practices, i.e., continuous integration, delivery, and deployment, are the software development industry practices that enable organizations to frequently and reliably release new features and products. With the increasing interest in and literature on continuous practices, it is important to systematically review and synthesize the approaches, tools, challenges, and practices reported for adopting and implementing continuous practices.Objective: This research aimed at systematically reviewing the state of the art of continuous practices to classify approaches and tools, identify challenges and practices in this regard, and identify the gaps for future research. Method:We used systematic literature review (SLR) method for reviewing the peer-reviewed papers on continuous practices published between 2004 and 1st June 2016. We applied thematic analysis method for analysing the data extracted from reviewing 69 papers selected using predefined criteria. Results:We have identified thirty approaches and associated tools, which facilitate the implementation of continuous practices in the following ways: (1) -reducing build and test time in continuous integration (CI)‖; (2) -increasing visibility and awareness on build and test results in CI‖; (3) -supporting (semi-) automated continuous testing‖; (4) -detecting violations, flaws and faults in CI‖; (5) -addressing security and scalability issues in deployment pipeline‖, and (6) -improving dependability and reliability of deployment process‖. We have also determined a list of critical factors such as -testing (effort and time)‖, -team awareness and transparency‖, -good design principles‖, -customer‖, -highly skilled and motivated team‖, -application domain‖, and -appropriate infrastructure‖ that should be carefully considered when introducing continuous practices in a given organization. The majority of the reviewed papers were validation (34.7%) and evaluation (36.2%) research types. This review also reveals that continuous practices have been successfully applied to both greenfield and maintenance projects. Conclusion:Continuous practices have become an important area of software engineering research and practice. Whilst the reported approaches, tools, and practices are addressing a wide range of challenges, there are several challenges and gaps which require future research work for: improving the capturing and reporting of contextual information in the studies reporting different aspects of continuous practices; gaining a deep understanding of how software-intensive systems should be (re-) architected to support continuous practices; addressing the lack of knowledge and tools for engineering processes of designing and running secure deployment pipelines.

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Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment: A Systematic Review on Approaches, Tools, Challenges and Practices

2017

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“…• Publisher's site publishes research studies from their own repositories. 79 The selected publishers' sites are "IEEE Xplore," "Science Direct," "ACM Digital Library," and "Springer Link. "…”

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“…• Index engines consist of the articles reported in other publisher' sites. 79 The selected index engine is "Google Scholar. "…”

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“…The data sources were selected on the basis of our previous SLR experience and recommendations, suggested by Chen et al 79 We have used Google Scholar in addition to other digital libraries, as mentioned in Table 2. The reason for using this digital venue is to retrieve more relevant papers that may have been missed by other digital libraries.…”

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Agile practices for global software development vendors in the development of green and sustainable software

Rashid

Khan

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Over the last decade, the use of agile methods has grown dramatically for software development. Agile methods guarantee to accelerate the delivery of remarkable software with increased user satisfaction and reduced cost. However, in recent years, due to emergence of green software engineering, software developers are compelled to focus more on green and sustainable aspects of software. Global software engineering aims to design, develop, and use a software with limited energy and computing resources. Recently, software engineers in global software development (GSD) have adapted agile methods for quick, interactive, and environment‐friendly software development. However, there is a lack of specific practices to be followed by GSD vendors in the development of green and sustainable software. In this study, we have identified 36 agile practices through systematic literature review and applied contrived search criteria derived from the research questions; 53 relevant papers were identified and reviewed. Findings of the systematic literature review were then empirically validated through questionnaire survey in GSD industry, in which 106 relevant experts from 25 different countries participated. The identified agile practices are intended to assist GSD vendors in strengthening their agile maturity towards green and sustainable software development.

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“…We assert that Scopus is a complement to SpringerLink as it indexes a large number of journals and conference papers in software engineering and computer science [19,20]. We did not use Google scholar due to its low precision of the results and the tendency of returning a large number of irrelevant papers [21]. Table 2.…”

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