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 February 14, 2021, including the analysis of the collected data. It details and supplements the survey's presentation of our ESEC/FSE 2021 paper Automating Serverless Deployments for DevOps Organizations. 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 February 14, 2021, detailing our paper Automating Serverless Deployments for DevOps Organizations.
• survey-data.csv: Survey dataset until February 14, 2021.
• analysis.zip: Analysis scripts for all statements and generation of all contents of report.pdf and our paper Automating Serverless Deployments for DevOps Organizations. Also includes the dataset and report.