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Tell me: Am I going to Heaven? A Diagnosis Instrument of Continuous Software Engineering Practices Adoption

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Paulo Sérgio dos Santos Júnior,

Monalessa Perini Barcellos,

Fabiano Borges RuyAuthors Info & Claims

EASE '21: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

Pages 30 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/3463274.3463324

Published: 21 June 2021 Publication History

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Context: Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) involves a set of practices that aims at making software development continuous and integrated to business. However, moving from traditional to integrated, agile and data-driven software development requires changes in the organization´s culture, practices and structure, which may not be easy. Objective: Our focus is to help organizations get an overall view of the CSE practices they perform, identify where they are in the CSE evolutionary path and which areas should be improved. Method: We created a diagnosis instrument, called Zeppelin, to evaluate the adoption of CSE practices and applied it in five Brazilian software organizations. Results: Zeppelin was recognized as a useful tool to help organizations have a more comprehensive view of their CSE practices and envision the evolution and improvement path they can follow. Conclusion: Zeppelin supports software development organizations to get a big picture of CSE practices and identify their position in the CSE evolution path. Moreover, it contributes to identify strategies to advance software development towards a CSE environment.

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Alves DSmek DSouza ÉFelizardo KVijaykumar N(2024)Updating a Systematic Literature Review on Knowledge Management Diagnostics in Software Development OrganizationsProceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality10.1145/3701625.3701652(125-135)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3701625.3701652
Khan HAfsar WNazir SNoor AKundi MMaashi MAlshahrani H(2023)Revolutionizing software developmental processes by utilizing continuous software approachesThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-023-05818-880:7(9579-9608)Online publication date: 12-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05818-8
Júnior PBarcellos MRuy FOmêna M(2022)Flying over Brazilian Organizations with ZeppelinProceedings of the XXXVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3555228.3555234(279-288)Online publication date: 5-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555228.3555234

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