Devops and Modern Software Delivery

Abstract

Delivering software is often a long, difficult and risky process. Defects and integration issues pop-up at the very last moment and cause dissatisfaction to end users, the development teams and business stakeholders. Furthermore, lack of collaboration between different teams generally results in the implementation of wrong functionality, integration and deployment errors and finger-pointing. The goal of this paper is to summarize the best DevOps practices relevant to software delivery. These practices are a result of a systematic and continuous improvement of the software delivery process and range of behavioral and cultural changes in the way of working and technical improvements in the software delivery process.