4th International DevOps Quality Management Workshop - 2023

Aim

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.

Scope

Researchers and practitioners are working to explore different aspects of the DevOps process. However, we didn’t see any conference that explicitly focused on DevOps activities and, more specifically, on quality management. Quality management offers immense research opportunities that can improve the DevOps process. This area needs due attention and a platform to maximize the discussion and research progress. We believe that this workshop will provide an opportunity for industry and academia to explore the quality attributes of the DevOps process.

Theme

The quality management of the software system and processes are mature in a conventional software development environment. Focusing on various metrics and processes under the DevOps principles could significantly improve product quality, development, and ownership. However, the deployment of DevOps quality assurance techniques and approaches remains largely unknown, and the automated steps in DevOps make quality management a challenging phase that cannot be achieved using traditional approaches. Therefore, DevOps-oriented quality management approaches are far from being mature and are often limited to expensive trial-and-error exercises.

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

Submission  

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, and review process can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=devopsqm2023.

At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay a full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded to the conference submission site. 

Program Committee

• Muhammad Abdul Basit Ur Rahim, California State University Long Beach, USA

• Saif Ur Rahman Khan, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Wen-Li Wang, Penn State University, Behrend

• Ghufran Ahmad, FAST-NUCES, Karachi

• Ghulam Mudassir, University of L'Aquila, Italy

• Abdul Mateen, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology

• Aakash Ahmad, Lancaster University Leipzig

• Mahdi Fahmideh, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

• Javed Iqbal, COMSATS University Islamabad

• Muhammad Imran Faisal, Federal Urdu University, Islamabad

Accepted Papers

• Yasir Hussain, Zhiqiu Huang, Yu Zhou, Izhar Ahmed Khan, Nasrullah Khan and Muhammad Zahid Abbas, Optimized Tokenization Process for Open-Vocabulary Code Completion: An Empirical Study

• Ramyasri Simhadry and Mohammad Shameem, Challenges in Requirements Gathering for Agile Software Development

• Ankur Kumar, Mohammad Nadeem and Mohammad Shameem, Prioritization of DevOps Maturity models using Fuzzy TOPSIS

• Muhammad Waqas Qaisar, Hassan Mujtaba, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz, Muhammad Shahid, Ahmad Abdul Ghani, Muhammad Abbas Khan and Kashif Hussain, Comparative Analysis of Fuzzy and Neural Controller for a Boost Converter

• Asma Shamshad, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz, Ali Raza and Muhammad Abbas Khan, An Intelligent Automation of Power Transformer using PLC and SCADA at Substation

• Maira Khanam, Saima Rafi and Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Understandings of Ethics in DevOps Teams: A Priliminalry Invistigations

•  Sidra Ramzan, Saif Ur Rehman Khan, Shahid Hussain, Wen-Li Wang and Mei-Huei Tang, Identification of Influential Factors for Successful Adoption of DevOps and Cloud

• Syed Muhammad Faaiz, Saif Ur Rehman Khan, Shahid Hussain, Wen-Li Wang and Naseem Ibrahim, A Study on Management Challenges and Practices in DevOps