Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study

Zampetti, Fiorella; Tamburri, Damian A.; Panichella, Sebastiano; Panichella, Annibale; Canfora, Gerardo; Penta, Massimiliano Di

doi:10.1145/3571854

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26612

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study
Authors:	Zampetti, Fiorella Tamburri, Damian A. Panichella, Sebastiano Panichella, Annibale Canfora, Gerardo Penta, Massimiliano Di
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1145/3571854 10.21256/zhaw-26612
Published in:	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Issue Date:	2022
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Association for Computing Machinery
ISSN:	1049-331X 1557-7392
Language:	English
Subjects:	Empirical software engineering; Continuous integration and delivery; Cyber-physical system
Subject (DDC):	005: Computer programming, programs and data
Abstract:	Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) practices have shown several benefits for software development and operations, e.g., faster release cycles and early discovery of defects. For Cyber-Physical System (CPS) development, CI/CD can help achieving required goals, such as high dependability, yet it may be challenging to apply. This paper empirically investigates challenges, barriers, and their mitigation occurring when applying CI/CD practices to develop CPSs in 10 organizations working in 8 different domains. The study has been conducted through semi-structured interviews, by applying an open card sorting procedure together with a member-checking survey within the same organizations, and by validating the results through a further survey involving 55 professional developers. The study reveals several peculiarities in the application of CI/CD to CPSs. These include the need for (i) combining continuous and periodic builds, while balancing the use of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) and simulators; (ii) coping with difficulties in software deployment (iii) accounting for simulators and HiL differing in their behavior; and (vi) combining hardware/software expertise in the development team. Our findings open the road towards recommenders aimed at supporting the setting and evolution of CI/CD pipelines, as well as university curricula requiring interdisciplinarity, such as knowledge about hardware, software, and their interplay.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26612
Fulltext version:	Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	COSMOS – DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems of Systems
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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Zampetti, F., Tamburri, D. A., Panichella, S., Panichella, A., Canfora, G., & Penta, M. D. (2022). Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571854

Zampetti, F. et al. (2022) ‘Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study’, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3571854.

F. Zampetti, D. A. Tamburri, S. Panichella, A. Panichella, G. Canfora, and M. D. Penta, “Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study,” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2022, doi: 10.1145/3571854.

ZAMPETTI, Fiorella, Damian A. TAMBURRI, Sebastiano PANICHELLA, Annibale PANICHELLA, Gerardo CANFORA und Massimiliano Di PENTA, 2022. Continuous integration and delivery practices for cyber-physical systems : an interview-based study. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 2022. DOI 10.1145/3571854

Zampetti, Fiorella, Damian A. Tamburri, Sebastiano Panichella, Annibale Panichella, Gerardo Canfora, and Massimiliano Di Penta. 2022. “Continuous Integration and Delivery Practices for Cyber-Physical Systems : An Interview-Based Study.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571854.

Zampetti, Fiorella, et al. “Continuous Integration and Delivery Practices for Cyber-Physical Systems : An Interview-Based Study.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1145/3571854.