Abstract

To modernize the statistical production within an organization producing official statistics, lessons can be learned from so-called DevOps practices in system
development. There are several principles that could be easily translated from a traditional software development project, for example “Automate Everything”.
Other principles could be adapted, for example “Testing” which could be adapted to include necessary steps for official statistics production such as “Observing
Quality Dimensions”. Being completely reproducible is an important goal for official statistics, but this does not only imply requirements on code versioning, but
also on data management so it can be accessed in a versioned manner. An implementation at Statistics Austria of a continuous integration / continuous
development (CI/CD) pipeline based on R is presented. on implementation at Statistics.