Climbing the "Stairway to heaven" - A mulitiple-case study exploring barriers in the transition from agile development towards continuous deployment of software

Proceedings - 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 392-399

  Olsson, Helena Holmström ^a   Alahyari, Hiva ^a   Bosch, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

agile software development; continuous deployment; continuous integration; customer collaboration

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT; CUSTOMER COLLABORATION; CUSTOMER FEEDBACK; DEVELOPMENT CYCLE; FEED-BACK LOOP; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; PARADIGM SHIFTS; SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SALES;

EID: 84869851477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEAA.2012.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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