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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.
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Bezemer et al. (2019) studied this question.