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    COLLABORATIVE APPROACH OF AGILE AND DEVOPS FOR CONTINUOUS DELIVERY OF QUALITY SOFTWARE
    (Hawassa University, 2023-08) DESSALEGN MENGESHA
    We are in the era of high demand for quality software in many organizations in order to achieve their organizational goals. Many organizations around the globe have shown great interest in the automation of their business processes. This in turn causes emerging and improvement of different software development methodologies and the way of service provision dramatically. Among those methodologies, Agile Software Development Methodologies and DevOps culture/tool have become more popular due to their capability on supporting rapid software development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Even though the two methodologies are complementary and have their own significant role in the software development lifecycle, using the two approaches independently will not bring development process improvement to the optimum level. Contextualizing the software development process enables the practitioners to improve their development process and for better productivity. The objective of this thesis work is to integrate the two approaches together with minor modifications to the DevOps team structure by extending the role of the DevOps team to the development environment. The research is conducted as experimental research and the evaluation was done by using two working projects, one using classical Agile as a control group and the other by integrated approach of Agile and DevOps as an experimental group. The number of changes accepted and developed and the number of deliveries in a specific period of time are used as measurement parameters. The experiment was done using students who joined Hawassa University Application Development Team for practical attachments. The findings of the experiment demonstrate that the experimental group project, which utilized agile methodologies in conjunction with DevOps practices, achieved superior outcomes compared to the control group project, which relied on the department's standard Agile/Scrum approach. This improvement was evident in metrics such as accepted changes and committed deliveries. Furthermore, the guideline applied to the experimental group project was refined and is included in this paper to serve as a valuable resource for future researchers and developers.