Continuous Integration

International Journal Papers x 5

  1. How Trustworthy is Your CI Accelerator? A Comparison of the Trustworthiness of CI Acceleration Products
    Authors - Zhili Zeng, Tao Xiao, Maxime Lamothe, Hideaki Hata, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - IEEE Software, pp. To appear, 2024
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    Related Tags - IEEESW 2024 continuous integration build performance
  2. Characterizing Timeout Builds in Continuous Integration
    Authors - Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 1450–1463, 2024
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    Related Tags - TSE 2024 continuous integration resource waste
  3. An Empirical Comparison of Ethnic and Gender Diversity of DevOps and non-DevOps Contributions to Open-Source Projects
    Authors - Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, Xiaoyan Xu, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh, Meiyappan Nagappan
    Venue - Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 150, pp. 1–37, 2023
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    Related Tags - EMSE 2023 build systems continuous integration
  4. Accelerating Continuous Integration by Caching Environments and Inferring Dependencies
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba, John Ewart, Yves Junqueira, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 8, pp. 2040–2052, 2022
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    Related Tags - TSE 2022 continuous integration build performance
  5. Use and Misuse of Continuous Integration Features: An Empirical Study of Projects that (mis)use Travis CI
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 33–50, 2020
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    Related Tags - TSE 2020 continuous integration anti-patterns software evolution

Full-Length International Conference Papers x 8

  1. Developer-Applied Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns
    Authors - Mingyang Yin, Yutaro Kashiwa, Keheliya Gallaba, Mahmoud Alfadel, Yasutaka Kamei, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. To appear, 2024
    Acceptance rate - 155/567 (27%)
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    Related Tags - ASE 2024 continuous integration build performance
  2. Dependency-Induced Waste in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Unused Dependencies in the npm Ecosystem
    Authors - Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 116:1–116:23, 2024
    Acceptance rate - 121/483 (25%)
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    Related Tags - FSE 2024 continuous integration resource waste
  3. RavenBuild: Context, Relevance, and Dependency Aware Build Outcome Prediction
    Authors - Gengyi Sun, Sarra Habchi, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 45:1–45:23, 2024
    Acceptance rate - 121/483 (25%)
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    Related Tags - FSE 2024 continuous integration build performance
  4. A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Appproaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Yourbase
    Authors - Zhili Zeng, Tao Xiao, Maxime Lamothe, Hideaki Hata, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. To appear, 2024
    Acceptance rate - 42/146 (29%)
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    Related Tags - MSR 2024 continuous integration build performance
  5. Repeated Builds During Code Review: An Empirical Study of the OpenStack Community
    Authors - Rungroj Maipradit, Dong Wang, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Yasutaka Kamei, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 153–165, 2023
    Acceptance rate - 134/629 (21%)
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    Related Tags - ASE 2023 continuous integration code review resource waste
  6. Lessons from Eight Years of Operational Data from a Continuous Integration Service: An Exploratory Case Study of CircleCI
     ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award Nominee 
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba, Maxime Lamothe, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 1330–1342, 2022
    Acceptance rate - 197/751 (26%)
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    Related Tags - ICSE 2022 continuous integration
  7. Reuse (or Lack Thereof) in Travis CI Specifications: An Empirical Study of CI Phases and Commands
    Authors - Puneet Kaur Sidhu, Gunter Mussbacher, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, Replication and Negative Results (RENE), pp. 524–533, 2019
    Acceptance rate - 3/4 (75%)
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    Related Tags - SANER 2019 continuous integration
  8. Noise and Heterogeneity in Historical Build Data: An Empirical Study of Travis CI
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba, Christian Macho, Martin Pinzger, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 87–97, 2018
    Acceptance rate - 69/346 (20%)
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    Related Tags - ASE 2018 build breakage continuous integration

Short International Conference Papers x 5

  1. Mitigating Waste That Tacitly Accrues in Continuous Integration Pipelines
    Authors - Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana
    Venue - International Conference on Software Engineering, Doctoral Symposium, pp. To appear, 2025
    Acceptance rate - ?/? (?%)
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    Related Tags - ICSE 2025 continuous integration resource waste
  2. Mining Our Way Back to Incremental Builds for DevOps Pipelines
    Authors - Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. To appear, 2024
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    Related Tags - MSR 2024 continuous integration build performance
  3. Improving the Robustness and Efficiency of Continuous Integration and Deployment
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba
    Venue - International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Doctoral Symposium, pp. 619–623, 2019
    Acceptance rate - ?/? (?%)
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    Related Tags - ICSME 2019 continuous integration build breakage build performance anti-patterns
  4. An Empirical Study of the Personnel Overhead of Continuous Integration
    Authors - Marco Manglaviti, Eduardo Coronado-Montoya, Keheliya Gallaba, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Mining challenge, pp. 471–474, 2017
    Acceptance rate - 14/29 (48%)
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    Related Tags - MSR 2017 continuous integration integration
  5. The Impact of the Adoption of Continuous Integration on Developer Attraction and Retention
    Authors - Yusaira Khan, Yash Gupta, Keheliya Gallaba, Shane McIntosh
    Venue - International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Mining challenge, pp. 491–494, 2017
    Acceptance rate - 14/29 (48%)
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    Related Tags - MSR 2017 continuous integration integration

Theses x 3

  1. Quantifying, Characterizing, and Leveraging Cross-Disciplinary Dependencies: Empirical Studies from a Video Game Development Setting
    Authors - Gengyi Sun
    Venue - University of Waterloo, pp. 1-63, 2023
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    Related Tags - Theses 2023 build systems build performance continuous integration
  2. Trade-Off Exploration for Acceleration of Continuous Integration
    Authors - Zhili Zeng
    Venue - University of Waterloo, pp. 1-69, 2023
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    Related Tags - Theses 2023 continuous integration build performance
  3. Improving the Robustness and Efficiency of Continuous Integration and Deployment
    Authors - Keheliya Gallaba
    Venue - McGill University, pp. 1-149, 2021
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    Related Tags - Theses 2021 continuous integration build performance