Understandings of Ethics in DevOps Teams: A Preliminary Investigation

Ethics are essential in DevOps for promoting transparency, trust, security, quality, continuous improvement, and user-centricity, as they guide individuals and organizations to make responsible choices and develop high-quality, secure, and reliable software applications. To consider the ethics of the DevOps teams, there is a need to develop standards and a code of conduct. The objective of this research work is to develop robust guidelines to assist software development organizations to consider ethics in the DevOps teams. The empirical study will be performed with industry practitioners, and legislation experts to explore the important areas and practices that need to be followed by the software organizations' work ethics for the DevOps teams. We believe the developed robust guidelines will assist the organization to follow the work ethics while working in a DevOps culture.