Impact of Devops Practices on Software Product Quality: Preliminary Findings From a Systematic Mapping

Today, several organizations are embracing DevOps.It has been increasingly suggested that this approach has a positiveimpact on the quality of the software produced. This work-inprogressaims to identify and analyze DevOps practicesrecommended in the literature that contribute to improvingspecific aspects of product quality as represented in the ISO/IEC25010 quality model. To achieve this, authors carried out asystematic mapping review, so that a clear vision of the currentstate of the subject could be obtained, as well as finding empiricalevidence of DevOps practices that have a positive influence on thequality characteristics of software products. Preliminary resultsreveal, firstly, an increase in the number of publications on thesubject in recent years. It was also found that there is a lowadoption of quality standards in this context. On the other hand, itstands out that there is a high percentage of research thataddresses the security characteristic, while other characteristics,such as compatibility, receive less attention. It was also possible toobtain DevOps practices, which according to the empiricalevidence provided by the primary studies, have a positive influenceon the quality of the software product.