5th International DevOps Quality Management (DevOps-QM) Workshop - 2024

Co-located with 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE2024)- Tue 18 - Fri 21 June 2024 Salerno, Italy

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DevOps is a framework that integrates both the development and operation activities and bridges the gap between them. DevOps practices are getting significant research and industrial attention because of its attributes, i.e., continuous value delivery, faster time to market, frequent accommodation of changes, and superior quality. The 2017 software trends highlighted that DevOps would become a well-established and accepted approach across the software industry. However, quality management plays a significant role between the development and operation silos. In DevOps, quality assurance works as a bridge between all the disciplines from customers and business to development and operation. For instance, exploring the quality management issues in DevOps becomes an urgent need for software companies striving to adopt DevOps practices. 

This workshop aims to provide a venue for advances in state of the art in DevOps quality management approaches, practices, and tools. To this end, the workshop brings together experts from academia and industry, working in the diverse areas of quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, agile software engineering, and model-based development to identify, define, and disseminate novel quality-aware approaches to DevOps.

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Suggested Topics

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Empirical studies using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods

• Empirical evaluation of quality management techniques

• Social aspects of DevOps

• DevOps quality management tools and methods

• Machine learning for quality assurance

• Scaling DevOps in the domain of global software engineering

• Quality improvement standards and models

• Knowledge management in DevOps

• DevSecOps (thinking about application and infrastructure security from the start)

• Automated documentation in DevOps

• Risk management

• Human factors in DevOps

• DevOps education

• Testing, verification and validation

• DevOps challenges

• DevOps for Cyber-Physical Systems

• Ethics in DevOps Practices

•Managing crowdsourcing using soft computing approaches

•Systematic literature reviews

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Important Dates 

• 8th Mar. 2024 - Paper submission close (confirm)

• 12th Apr. 2024 - Authors notification (confirm)

• 26th Apr. 2024 - Camera-ready (confirm)

• 5th May 2024- Early registration (confirm)

• 21th June. 2024- Workshop takes place (tentative)

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Submission Guidelines

The workshop will accept both academic and industrial papers, depending on the quality of the submissions. Submitted papers must be written in English, contain original unpublished work, and conform to the ACM Proceedings Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

The authors have three options for submitting their papers:

Research Track (up to 10 pages): This track is defined for papers that conducted original research. Submissions should focus on innovative methodologies, tools, datasets, or studies that are closely aligned with the themes of the workshop.

Industry Track (up to 6 pages): This track calls for papers that focus on practical industrial challenges and experiences. Submissions should focus on real-world problems, practical insights, and lessons learned from industrial practices.

Ideas, Visions, and Reflections Track (up to 4 pages): This track is defined for the submissions that propose radical and innovative ideas, pioneering research directions, or provide insightful reflections and lessons from past experiences.

Submit pdf format manuscripts via the following easychair link: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=devopsqm2024