DevOps Maturity in Chinese Securities: Real‑World Case Studies
This article examines how leading Chinese securities firms adopt the CAICT‑led DevOps Capability Maturity Model, presenting detailed case studies, assessment metrics, and improvements in continuous delivery, technical operation, and security that illustrate the model’s industry impact.
In the context of digital transformation, enterprises adopt DevOps to improve efficiency. The "DevOps Capability Maturity Model" series, led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), provides high‑value guidance. Leading securities firms have participated in assessments, enhancing IT capabilities and better supporting business systems.
Participating Securities Companies and Project Count
Huatai Securities, Haitong Securities, CITIC Securities, Guoxin Securities, Anxin Securities and others have a total of 11 projects evaluated.
Case Studies
Huatai Securities – Two Projects
Huatai completed the "Chasing Wind" (CRM marketing) project and the XTrader project. Roles included product manager, Scrum Master, architect, developer, tester, and operations. The projects followed Scrum agile processes.
Anxin Securities – Three Projects
Projects: Mobile securities trading service platform (June/July 2019), User Center (internet business platform), and Internet Customer Service Platform. These projects cover Java backend, front‑end H5, and database components, improving pipeline capabilities such as UI automation testing and database change management. Metrics: unit‑test coverage rose from 30% to >75%, automated‑test ratio from 40% to >80%, automation success >99%, pipeline execution under 8 minutes, and average delivery cycle reduced to 5.7 days (‑70%).
Guoxin Securities – Jin‑Taiyang Information Platform
The Jin‑Taiyang platform is a self‑developed one‑stop financial investment app with over 16 million registered users. Using the self‑developed Zebra micro‑service framework and the Simba efficiency platform, it achieved continuous delivery, reducing average delivery from 1.5 months to one week, unit‑test coverage from 40% to 84.39%, and automated‑test coverage to 100%.
Haitong Securities – e‑HaiTongCai Information Center
The data‑application service system supports securities, funds, bonds, and other data. Continuous delivery time decreased from weekly to daily releases; release frequency increased from 1‑2 per month to weekly; production defect escape rate remained at 0 for three months.
CITIC Securities – Custody Outsourcing Service Platform
The micro‑service based platform integrates product introduction, establishment, operation, and clearing, improving development efficiency through the efficiency platform.
Technical Operation (Standard 4) Assessment
Huatai Securities' "ZhangLe Wealth‑Pass" trading service project required high availability and multi‑active architecture. A real‑customer business perception system runs 200 phones with 700+ test cases, achieving >99% automation success.
Security and Risk Management (Standard 6) Assessment
Huatai Securities' Data Science Development Platform provides web‑based code, model, workflow, and scheduling functions. It implements strict user management, authentication, permission, logging, and audit. A DevSecOps toolchain is integrated into the DevOps pipeline, automating security checks.
The above information is compiled from public news releases and the CAICT website. The DevOps Capability Maturity Model is the first domestic DevOps series standard and was recognized by ITU‑T in July 2020.
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