key: cord-0949386-8p00yy83
authors: Capozucca, Alfredo; Bruel, Jean-Michel; Mazzara, Manuel; Meyer, Bertrand
title: Special Issue on New Paradigms of Software Production and Deployment
date: 2022-01-13
journal: SN Comput Sci
DOI: 10.1007/s42979-022-01029-9
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doc_id: 949386
cord_uid: 8p00yy83

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As said, this series started in 2018 with the organisation of the first workshop. Although this workshop was not the absolute first event organised in the LASER center, it was the first time that submissions were opened to everyone without any invitation. It was a good occasion not only to strengthen already existing collaborations, but also to meet new people and develop new collaborations. A proof of that, it is this topical issue. The event was repeated in May 6-8, 2019, at the same venue.

For each workshop, a collection of revised selected papers were published in a sub series of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series ( [2, 3] ).

There was an initial plan to run a third event of the series in Spring 2020, but it had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After initial consideration to run it as an online event in late 2020/early 2021, it was decided to postpone it until the situation would allow us to come back to the original settings.

Instead, a journal Topical Issue was organised to complete the trilogy and serve as a replacement to guarantee continuity. Thus, the aim and scope of this topical issue remained aligned with those of the DEVOPS series: to provide the most recent stages of what is being done in the area of software engineering targeting modern software development methods, with particular interest at those aimed at speeding up the development life cycle, while ensuring that the product to be released meets the expected levels of quality.

Of course, the organisation and review process did also suffer from the effects caused by the pandemic. The initial timeline had to be adapted to grant extensions to authors to submit their work, then to reviewers to come up with their reviews, and us (the guest editors) to make the final decisions. Despite of that, the full process was completed as initially promised in 2021, leading to accepted papers to be published between August and November.

We received 13 submissions, from which finally 6 made it into the Topical Issue. Each submission was reviewed for two independent reviewers following a two-round revision process: i.e. authors of papers that required major modifications had the chance to incorporate reviewers' feedback into the second submission. Each submission had to have at least one reviewer accepting the paper to be considered by us (guest editors) to make the final decision: either accepting or rejecting the submission.

The Topical Issue on "New paradigms of software production and deployment", is now published by Springer Nature (SN) Computer Science. SN Computer Science is a broad-based, peer reviewed journal that publishes original research in all the disciplines of computer science, including various inter-disciplinary aspects. This Topical Issue promotes studies that fall into the context of DevOps and which are based on clear and solid evidence. Thus, we trust the advantages (and/or limitations) of the insights brought by these studies make possible to advance the knowledge on the targeted field. We hope you will enjoy reading and find it useful for your future work.

Software product system model: a customervalue oriented, adaptable, devops-based product model. SN Comput Sci

Software engineering aspects of continuous development and new paradigms of software production and deployment-first international workshop

Software engineering aspects of continuous development and new paradigms of software production and deployment-second international workshop

New paradigms of software production and deployment

Virtualization costs: benchmarking containers and virtual machines against bare-metal

Secdocker: hardening the continuous integration workflow

Closing the feedback loop in devops through autonomous monitors in operations

Monitoring a ci/cd workflow using process mining

Applying modeldriven engineering to stimulate the adoption of devops processes in small and medium-sized development organizations: the case for microservice architecture

Acknowledgements We want to thank not only the authors who submitted articles to the topical issue, but also those who acted as reviewer. Beside submitted article's authors, other colleagues also helped in the review process. Our thanks to all of them for their disinterested participation to help us reach the expected high quality contribution level. We finally want to thank the Editor-in-Chief and the rest of the editorial team.