A Cross-Company Ethnographic Study on Software Teams for DevOps and Microservices: Organization, Benefits, and Issues
Thu 12 May 2022 04:05 - 04:10 at ICSE room 2-even hours - Software Engineering in Practice 2 Chair(s): Sigrid Eldh
Context: DevOps and microservices are acknowledged to be important new paradigms to tackle contemporary software demands and provide capabilities for rapid and reliable software development. Industrial reports show that they are quickly adopted together in massive software companies. However, because of the technical and organizational requirements, many difficulties against efficient implementation of the both emerge in real software teams. Objectives: This study aims to discovering the organization, benefit and issues of software teams using DevOps & microservices from an immersive perspective. Method: An ethnographic study was carried out in three companies with different business, size, products, customers and degree of globalization. All the three companies claimed their adoption of DevOps and microservices. Seven months (cumulative) of participant observations and nine interviews with practitioners were conducted to collect the data of software teams related to DevOps and microservices. A cross-company empirical investigation using grounded theory was done by analyzing synthesizing the archive data. Results: The virtual software teams were organized for the DevOps and microservice adoption under the stubborn organizational structure. The adoption of DevOps and microservice brings benefits to rapid delivery, ability improvements and burden reduction, whilst the high cost and lack of practice guidelines were emerged. Two major issues of adopting DevOps and microservice in software teams (i.e. fragmentary DevOps and abuse of microservice) were found common in the companies. Moreover, our observations and interviews found that in software teams, the relationship between DevOps and microservice is not significant, which is different from the relationship described in previous studies. Four lessons for practitioners and four implications for researchers were discussed based on the findings. Conclusion: Our findings contribute to the understanding of the organization, benefits and issues of DevOps and microservices adoption from the immersive perspective of software teams.
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