Artifact Traceability in DevOps: An Industrial Experience Report

In DevOps, the traceability of software artifacts is critical to the successful development and operation of project delivery to stakeholders. Before the introduction of end-to-end traceability in DevOps at a Data Analytics team at bp (BP plc), an international integrated energy company, the tracing of artifacts throughout a project life cycle was manual and time-consuming. This changed when traceability become more automated with end-to-end traceability capability as an offering on the platform. This paper reports on the ways of working and the experience of developers implementing DevOps for developing and putting in production a Javascript React web application, with a focus on traceability management of artifacts produced throughout the life cycle. This report highlights key opportunities and challenges in traceability management from the development stage to production.