ICDO: Integrated Cloud-Based Development Tool for DevOps.

. This research is based on three drivers. Firstly, software development and deployment cycles are getting shorter and require automatic building and deployment processes. Secondly, elastic clouds are available for both hosting and development of applications. Thirdly, the increasingly popular DevOps introduces new organizational and business culture. This paper presents a research prototype and demonstrator of an integrated development tool. The tool is cloud based and thus accessible from any Web-enabled terminal. Automation is maximized so that deployment cycles can be as fast as possible. Since the aim is to use cloud resources as a utility in a flexible manner, cloud brokering – i.e. finding the most suitable provider – is included in the system. The contributions of the paper include: an idea of a new kind of DevOps tool, description on how it can be implemented on top of standard components and implications to software development processes.