  The Continuous software engineering is a collaborative software development
environment which offers the continues development and deployment of quality
software project within short time. The Continuous software engineering
practices are not yet mature enough, and the software organizations hesitate to
adopt it. This study aims: (1) to explore the Continuous software engineering
challenges by conducting systematic literature review (SLR) and to get the
insight of industry experts via questionnaire survey study; (2) to prioritize
the investigated challenges using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP).
The study findings provides the set of critical challenges faced by the
software organizations while adopting Continuous software engineering and a
prioritization based taxonomy of the Continuous software engineering
challenges. The application of FAHP is novel in this research area as it
assists in addressing the vagueness of practitioners concerning the influencing
factors of Continuous software engineering. We believe that the finding of this
study will serve as a body of knowledge for real world practitioners and
researchers to revise and develop the new strategies for the successful
implementation of Continuous software engineering practices in the software
industry.
