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MSR · 2026

An Empirical Study of Policy as Code: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance

Ruben Opdebeeck, Mahmoud Alfadel, Akond Rahman, Yutaro Kashiwa, João F. Ferreira, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Coen De Roover

International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Abstract

Policy as Code (PaC) is an emerging DevOps practice that enables teams to specify organisational and technical policies, such as regulatory compliance, security requirements, and resource limits, through machine-enforceable declarative code.

DevOps