How is Performance Addressed in DevOps?
Cor‐Paul Bezemer, Simon Eismann, Vincenzo Ferme, Johannes Grohmann, Robert Heinrich, Pooyan Jamshidi, Weiyi Shang, André van Hoorn, Mónica Villavicencio, Jürgen Walter, Felix Willnecker · 2019
DevOps is a modern software engineering paradigm that is gaining widespread adoption in industry. The goal of DevOps is to bring software changes into production with a high frequency and fast feedback cycles. This conflicts with software quality assurance activities, particularly with respect to performance. For instance, performance evaluation activities --- such as load testing --- require a considerable amount of time to get statistically significant results.