Investigando o estado da arte na evolução de bancos de dados: um mapeamento sistemático e a criação de um guideline

Abstract

Within the current development scenarios, there is a need for the constant evolution of software. In order to facilitate this activity, solutions were proposed such as continuous integration, continuous deployment, among others. Due to this need to carry out the evolution of software, it becomes necessary to evolve the technologies used in its development. Among these technologies, one crucial to maintaining its functioning is the database. Databases are today an essential part of every business, not only to store types of information that are common to most organizations but also to specific information for your business. Its evolution is the result of any change in the bank that has the purpose of solving a problem encountered or adding data of new functionality. These changes are imposed by a limited database or the evolution of software over the iterations of a development process. However, the evolution of the database is one of the activities of Systems Engineering that is not clearly characterized in the literature, becoming a complex and exhausting activity. Knowing this need, a systematic mapping was carried out in order to find the solutions proposed for this area so far. Thus, it became possible to designate which are the main practices, techniques, technologies, tools, guidelines, processes or approaches used, together with what application domains and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each technique of evolution of a database. This was done with the aim of creating guidelines for all development models, from traditional to agile along with the use of continuous integration. Thus increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the database evolution in various contexts.