Dependencies in DevOps Survey 2021

While various empirical studies on the application of DevOps in practice exist, the state of application dependencies and their impact on the order of deployments has not been assessed yet. Such insight would indicate whether independent, cross-functional DevOps teams may deploy their applications independently or whether they need to coordinate. Further, in case coordination is required, we do not yet have insight into how such coordination is accomplished.

To fill this gap, we perform a cross-sectional, self-administered, online questionnaire survey with IT professionals. This report documents the survey until April 15, 2021, including the analysis of the collected data. Further, we provide the dataset and the scripts for the paper and this report.

Contents

• README.md: Overview and instructions on how to use this artifact.
• report.pdf: Survey report providing documentation, results and analysis of the survey until April 15, 2021.
• survey-data.csv: Survey dataset until April 15, 2021.
• analysis.zip: Analysis scripts for all statements and generation of all contents of report.pdf. Also includes the dataset and report.