A hybrid DevOps process supporting software reuse: A pilot project. Issue 7 (30th January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ali, Nazakat; Daneth, Horn; Hong, Jang‐Eui
• Is Part Of: Journal of software. Volume 32:Issue 7(2020)
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• Publication Date: 2020-01-30
• Subjects: DevOps -- reuse repository -- software development process -- software reuse; Software engineering -- Periodicals; Computer software -- Development -- Periodicals; Software maintenance -- Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1002/smr.2248
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2047-7473

Abstract

Abstract: Large software development organizations manage reusable software components through a reusable software repository in order to reduce development time and cost and to improve software quality and productivity. This paper presents a hybrid DevOps process with a systematic reuse‐based software development and management process to reduce the effort and cost required for the rework and to increase productivity. The proposed approach promotes the systematic reuse of software components based on both information retrieval and ontology‐based retrieval techniques. The reusable assets are presented in different styles to ease and support the reuse process with fine‐grained reusable artifacts. To evaluate our proposed process, a pilot project, aiming to monitor the health of a patient, was developed and monitored the reuse activities throughout the whole experiment. The results revealed that our proposed process got an average gain of 35.2% in terms of developed function points by reusing 30.63% of reusable artifacts available in the reuse repository. Abstract : We proposed a hybrid DevOps process with a systematic reuse‐based software development and management process to reduce the effort and cost required for the rework and to increase productivity. DevOps encourage tool support during the software delivery process for quick delivery. Therefore, we have developed a reuse repository to support rapid delivery by reusing artifacts during the development process. A pilot project—a health‐monitoring and management application—was developed to evaluate our proposed hybrid DevOps process.