Continuous Software Engineering

At present, most of the software projects that are developed, are run using methodologies and procedures, which causes the team in charge of the project end up launching products and services with failures. This is why companies need to consider the quality of software developed from a perspective that covers not only the final quality of the product, but a more general perspective which covers the entire development process. It is necessary to make use of methodologies, procedures and standards to be able to develop and launch a software product of quality, with sufficient certainty to obtain a lower final cost and risk.

The typical software life cycles have processes that isolate the tasks to be carried out by the different teams of the project. These are the development, testing, product (business) administration and operations, so that there is an important barrier between these.

In addition, during the software life cycle, it passes through different environments (the development, testing, production, etc.), so that it is a source of errors that are common to produce software in an environment making the software dependent on it and at the time of in the environment in which the users are going to interact with the application or service, this it does not work correctly. One of the intermediate steps between these two environments is the tests, where the correct functioning of the software will be verified, that is why it is it is advisable to carry them out in an environment as close as possible to that of production to mitigate the possible errors produced by the difference of scenarios.

In addition to this scenario difference problem, this process of bringing the software to the production environment, commonly referred to as production start-up, is completely manual, of errors, unreliable and difficult to repeat.

All these disadvantages cause that this process that goes from the software development until its production can lead to take in most cases weeks, delay that for some companies can translate into a high cost of opportunities, or what is the same a high economic cost.

To overcome all these problems, new methodologies and software development:

• DevOps defined as a new working philosophy in which barriers are broken previously discussed by...
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