Developer experience · Empirical study of practitioners and software architecture

An empirical study of architecting for continuous delivery and deployment

Empirical Software Engineering · 2018

Mojtaba Shahin, Mansooreh Zahedi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Liming Zhu

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Summary

Connects architectural practices and decisions with continuous delivery and deployment concerns.

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Possible founder application

Include deployability, testability, and operational feedback in architecture reviews from the start.

Reported result

What the study found

Connects architectural practices and decisions with continuous delivery and deployment concerns.

Research question

What the authors investigated

How does the study’s stated design explain its reported outcome in this setting?

Design

Empirical study of practitioners and software architecture

Sample and setting

Teams adopting continuous delivery/deployment; abstract-only

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Context and self-reported practice data limit causal claims.

Research sources

abstract_only

Study strength

3.5/5 Abstract-level evidence is useful for framing questions; verify full methods before transfer.

How this was assessed

The 1–5 evidence-check score is a practical reading aid, not a formal peer review or a probability that a conclusion is true. It combines design strength (2 points), sample reporting (1), comparison/control clarity (1), and how much of the paper could be checked (1). Access affects how confidently this directory can assess a study, not the study's underlying quality. Blinding is reported separately because it is not relevant to every design.

Design transparency · 2/2

Based on the reported study design in the retrieved source.

Sample and setting · 1/1

The sample context is stated; a numerical count is preserved only when reported.

Outcome clarity · 1/1

The finding is summarized from publisher or article metadata.

Access for checking · 0.5/1

Only abstract or bibliographic access was confirmed.

Double-blind? The retrieved publisher record does not establish whether participants or outcome assessors were blinded.

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