Eat your own DevOps: a model driven approach to justify continuous integration pipelines

Abstract

Many aspiring DevOps projects have introduced continuous development or continuous integration pipelines to their workflow as proof of their trustworthiness. However, a quality control protocol for pipelines has yet to be researched. This contribution suggests a model-driven approach using justification diagrams as a means to evaluate a pipeline's coherency with its project. The approach is partly automated and tested on three open-source projects with promising results.