Intro
Accelerating Digital Transformation
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Part I Continuous Delivery
Introduction to the Continuous Delivery Theme
1 Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
1.1 Introduction
1.2 From Agile Development to Continuous Deployment of Software
1.2.1 Traditional Development
1.2.2 Agile R&D Organization
1.2.3 Continuous Integration
1.2.4 Continuous Deployment
1.2.5 R&D as an 'Experiment System'
1.2.6 Summary
1.3 Research Approach
1.3.1 Research Sites
1.3.2 Research Method
1.4 Data Collection and Analysis

1.5 Validity and Generalizability of Results
1.6 Case Study Findings
1.6.1 Company A
1.6.2 Company B
1.6.3 Company C
1.6.4 Company D
1.7 Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
1.7.1 From Traditional to Agile R&D
1.7.2 From Agile R&D to Continuous Integration
1.7.3 From Continuous Integration to Continuous Deployment
1.7.4 From Continuous Deployment to Innovation System
1.8 Conclusions
2 Modeling Continuous Integration Practice Differences in Industry Software Development
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Research Method
2.2.1 Systematic Review

2.2.2 Analysis of Literature
2.2.3 Proposing a Model
2.3 Statement Clusters
2.3.1 Culled Clusters
2.3.1.1 Build Version Selection
2.3.1.2 Component Dependency Versioning
2.3.1.3 Fault Frequency
2.3.1.4 Fault Responsibility
2.3.1.5 Lifecycle Phasing
2.3.1.6 Process Management
2.3.2 Preserved Clusters
2.3.2.1 Build Duration
2.3.2.2 Build Frequency
2.3.2.3 Build Triggering
2.3.2.4 Definition of Failure and Success
2.3.2.5 Fault Duration
2.3.2.6 Fault Handling
2.3.2.7 Integration Frequency
2.3.2.8 Integration on Broken Builds

2.3.2.9 Integration Serialization and Batching
2.3.2.10 Integration Target
2.3.2.11 Modularization
2.3.2.12 Pre-integration Procedure
2.3.2.13 Scope
2.3.2.14 Status Communication
2.3.2.15 Test Separation
2.3.2.16 Testing of New Functionality
2.4 A Descriptive Model
2.4.1 Integration Flow Anatomy
2.4.2 Node Attributes
2.4.2.1 Scope Attributes
2.4.2.2 Build Characteristics Attributes
2.4.2.3 Result Handling Attributes
2.4.2.4 Input Node Attributes
2.4.3 Attribute Selection and Constraints
2.5 Illustrative Case Study
2.5.1 Project A

2.5.2 Sketching the Integration Flow Anatomy
2.5.3 Determining the Input Node Attributes
2.5.4 Determining the Activity Node Attributes
2.6 Conclusion
2.6.1 Disagreements in Related Work
2.6.2 Model Proposal
2.6.3 Model Validation
2.6.4 Open Questions for Further Research
2.6.4.1 Correlations Between Differences in Practice and Differences in Experience
2.6.4.2 Contextual Differences
2.6.4.3 Internal Constraints and Correlations of the Model
3 Efficient and Effective Exploratory Testing of Large-Scale Software Systems
3.1 Introduction