Software Reliability in a DevOps Continuous Integration Environment

Government customers are starting to ask for software reliability in request for proposals as they seek to gain visibility into the effectiveness of the development processes and the maturity of the product. Since manually tracking software reliability is a labor intensive task, this paper explores the feasibility of obtaining reliability metrics autonomously by integrating into an existing DevOps/Continuous Deployment (CD) environment pipeline. Automating the collection and reporting of reliability data within a DevOps pipeline would provide the following benefits:•Instantaneous visibility into the effectiveness of software verification•Gauge of software maturity at any point in development cycle•Facilitates dynamic recalibration of resource scheduling•Minimize impact to developers while providing feedback about their progress•Provide dashboards to allow real-time comparisons between predicted vs estimated reliability