Identificando quais são as ferramentas de gerência de configuração e integração contínua mais utilizadas pelo mercado de TI de Fortaleza

Abstract

The software market in Fortaleza city is a market not yet fully developed and has few large companies capable of attracting to the local market the majority of the great clients of the country or the world.As a result, the competitiveness of the city's companies intensifies, so in this way, motivates the companies of Fortaleza to devote considerable importance to the satisfaction of their clients, in order to guarantee the maintenance of its customers and its possible expansion. Companies seek to improve the quality of products developed by them to obtain customer satisfaction. Understanding that better product quality is the natural result of a good software development process and for help to do good software process there are popular improvement models such as CMMI and MPS-BR that guide the development of software processes and certify their quality. According to these improvement models, the disciplines of configuration management and continuous integration are two important disciplines in software quality assurance. Understanding that the use of continuous integration and configuration management tools brings uncountable benefits, such as a guarantee of good execution and more agility than manual steps, so a field survey was applied to identify which configuration management and continuous integration tools are most used in the local market. 09 companies of Fortaleza city answered an online questionnaire, of which 44.4% were large companies. The survey revealed that the web platform concentrates 77.8% of the software projects in the city and that Java technology with 77.8% is the most used by Fortaleza companies in their projects. Regarding the tools, the research concluded that Jenkins with 44.4% is the most used continuous integration tool, Gulp with 33.3% is the most used software building tool, Jira with 33.3% is the most preferred change control tool and Git with 77.8% is the version control tool most used by companies of Fortaleza city. So, Jenkins, Gulp, Jira and Git are respectively the tools of continuous integration, software construction, change control and version control more used by the companies of Fortaleza city.