Print Email Facebook Twitter Continuous Delivery Practices in a Large Financial Organization Title Continuous Delivery Practices in a Large Financial Organization Author Vassalo, Carmine (University of Zürich) Zampetti, Fiorelli (University of Sannio) Romano, D. (ING) Beller, M.M. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Panichella, A. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Di Penta, Massimiliano (University of Sannio) Zaidman, A.E. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Date 2016-10 Abstract Continuous Delivery is an agile software develop- ment practice in which developers frequently integrate changes into the main development line and produce releases of their software. An automated Continuous Integration infrastructure builds and tests these changes. Claimed advantages of CD include early discovery of (integration) errors, reduced cycle time, and better adoption of coding standards and guidelines. This paper reports on a study in which we surveyed 152 developers of a large financial organization (ING Netherlands), and investigated how they adopt a Continuous Integration and delivery pipeline during their development activities. In our study, we focus on topics related to managing technical debt, as well as test automation practices. The survey results shed light on the adoption of some agile methods in practice, and sometimes confirm, while in other cases, confute common wisdom and results obtained in other studies. For example, we found that refactoring tends to be performed together with other development activities, technical debt is almost always “self-admitted”, developers timely document source code, and assure the quality of their product through extensive automated testing, with a third of respondents dedicating more than 50% of their time to do testing activities. Subject Test-Driven DevelopmentContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationDevOpsAgile DevelopmentTechnical DebtRefactoringTesting To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:04841813-0325-4934-8888-0f6ecf3df028 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSME.2016.72 Publisher IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA ISBN 978-1-5090-3807-7 Source Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2016 Event ICSME 2016, 2016-10-02 → 2016-10-10, Raleigh, United States Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 Carmine Vassalo, Fiorelli Zampetti, D. Romano, M.M. Beller, A. Panichella, Massimiliano Di Penta, A.E. Zaidman Files PDF vassalloICSME2016.pdf 629.64 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:04841813-0325-4934-8888-0f6ecf3df028/datastream/OBJ/view