Developer experience · Empirical study

Assessing the Maturity of DevOps Practices in Software Industry: An Empirical Study of HELENA2 Dataset

The International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 2022 · 2022

Ankur Kumar, Mohammad Nadeem, Mohammad Shameem

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Summary

Empirical HELENA2-dataset study assesses maturity of DevOps practices in the software industry.

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Possible founder application

Provide maturity diagnostics tied to concrete engineering outcomes and improvement steps.

Reported result

What the study found

Empirical HELENA2-dataset study assesses maturity of DevOps practices in the software industry.

Research question

What the authors investigated

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

Design

Empirical study

Sample and setting

Abstract-only; sample/context details not available in the fetched metadata.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Only the DOI metadata/abstract was fetched; detailed methods, sample size, effect sizes, and external-validity constraints require full text.

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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