Preliminary Results of a Survey on the Use of Self-Adaptation in Industry

• Self-Adaptation equips a software system with a feedback loop that automates tasks that otherwise need to be performed by operators. Such feedback loops have found their way to a variety of practical applications, one typical example is an elastic cloud. Yet, the state of the practice in self-Adaptation is currently not clear. To get insights into the use of self-Adaptation in practice, we are running a largescale survey with industry. This paper reports preliminary results based on survey data that we obtained from 113 practitioners spread over 16 countries, 62 of them work with concrete self-Adaptive systems. We highlight the main insights obtained so far: motivations for self-Adaptation, concrete use cases, and difficulties encountered when applying self-Adaptation in practice. We conclude the paper with outlining our plans for the remainder of the study. © 2022 ACM.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Adaptive systems; Concretes; Feedback; Motivation

Difficulty applying self-adaptation; Feedback loops; Industrial use case; Large-scales; Self- adaptations; Self-adaptive system; Software-systems; State of the practice; Survey data

Surveys

Computer Science

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