Context Agile release engineering (ARE) practices are designed to deliver software faster
and cheaper to end users; hence, claims of such impacts should be validated by rigorous …

Continuous Delivery (CD) is a relatively new software development approach. Companies
that have adopted CD have reported significant benefits. Motivated by these benefits, many …

Context An experiment-driven approach to software product and service development is
gaining increasing attention as a way to channel limited resources to the efficient creation of …

Software-intensive companies constantly try to improve their software development process
for better software quality and a faster time to market. The DevOps phenomenon emerged …

Software development in highly dynamic environments imposes high risks to development
organizations. One such risk is that the developed software may be of only little or no value …

It is essential for startups to quickly experiment business ideas by building tangible
prototypes and collecting user feedback on them. As proto‐ty** is an inevitable part of …

In the last decade, the software industry has been marked by a growing trend of software
companies' ability to deploy new software features fast and frequently in short release cycle …

Characteristics and demands of the modern and digital society have transformed the
software development scenario and presented new challenges to software developers and …

Customer-centric strategies can help startups move towards successful and sustainable
businesses. User eXperience (UX) has been considered a critical factor in creating value for …

The practice of making new software available to end users as soon as it gets implemented
is becoming commonplace. This paper investigates a set of projects and their development …