Here's what is available on RG that I hope is helpful in answering your question.

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Debra

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=DevOps.&previous=publication

There are few peer-reviewed articles, given the nascent topic of devops.  That said, Roche (2013) provides an adoption perspective in QA.  Other articles I found are conference papers, including Bang et al. (2013) and Wettinger et al. (2014).  You should also look at continuous delivery (CD) and agile papers, such as Klepper et al. (2015).  Agile methods, such as XP, align closely with CD.  Indeed, extent literature largely considers devops to be closely related to taking an agile approach.

Klepper, S., Krusche, S., Peters, S., Bruegge, B., & Alperowitz, L. (2015, May). Introducing continuous delivery of mobile apps in a corporate environment: a case study. In Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on (pp. 5-11). IEEE.

Roche, J. (2013). Adopting DevOps practices in quality assurance. Communications of the ACM, 56(11), 38-43.

Bang, S. K., Chung, S., Choh, Y., & Dupuis, M. (2013, October). A grounded theory analysis of modern web applications: knowledge, skills, and abilities for DevOps. In Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Research in information technology (pp. 61-62). ACM.

Wettinger, J., Breitenbücher, U., & Leymann, F. (2014, December). Standards-based devops automation and integration using tosca. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (pp. 59-68). IEEE Computer Society.