WP29 Rail industrial DevOps and Architecting4evolution

Rail industry and rail operators face significant challenges that result in conflicting time scales for operations (long, with the need for adaptions and changes over decades) on the one hand, and realisation of new features and fixes (short, shall be brought into the field much faster than today) on the other hand. For the long timescale we propose to explore ways to improve the evolvability of architectures and for the quick realisation we propose to focus on ideas from the DevOps approach. Both must be done consistently with requirements from standards and regulations, harsh environment, safety-criticality, and long lifetime. To determine the right granularity of being technology-independent while preserving applicability in practice will be the key question.