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Continuous Integration (CI) testing is a popular software development technique that allows developers to easily check that their code can build successfully and pass tests across various system environments. In order to use a CI platform,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Mark Santolucito , Jialu Zhang , Ennan Zhai , Ruzica Piskac

Context: Continuous integration (CI) is a software engineering technique that proclaims a set of frequent activities to assure the health of the software product. Researchers and practitioners mention several benefits related to CI.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Eliezio Soares , Gustavo Sizilio , Jadson Santos , Daniel Alencar , Uira Kulesza

Continuous Integration (CI) is widely adopted in modern software development, yet adoption decisions are often made without systematic consideration of project context. Platforms such as GitHub Actions lower the barrier to CI adoption but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Osamah H. Alaini , Taher A. Ghaleb

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice where developers frequently integrate code into a common codebase. After the code is integrated, the CI server runs a test suite and other tools to produce a set of reports (e.g., output…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Thomas Durieux , Claire Le Goues , Michael Hilton , Rui Abreu

Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions and Travis CI, are widely adopted in open-source development to automate testing and deployment. Though existing research often examines individual services in isolation, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Nitika Chopra , Taher A. Ghaleb

Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice - Google and Mozilla estimate their CI systems in millions of dollars. There are a number of techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Xianhao Jin , Francisco Servant

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) caching is widely used to reduce repeated computation and improve CI/CD efficiency, yet maintaining effective caching requires ongoing maintenance effort. In this paper, we present the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kazi Amit Hasan , Yuan Tian , Safwat Hassan , Steven H. H. Ding

Continuous Integration (CI) build failures could significantly impact the software development process and teams, such as delaying the release of new features and reducing developers' productivity. In this work, we report on an empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yang Hong , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Jirat Pasuksmit , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Arik Friedman , Xing Zhao , Anton Krasikov

Automated builds are integral to the Continuous Integration (CI) software development practice. In CI, developers are encouraged to integrate early and often. However, long build times can be an issue when integrations are frequent. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Ekaba Bisong , Eric Tran , Olga Baysal

Mobile apps face strong pressure for fast and reliable updates. Continuous Integration (CI) helps automate builds, tests, and releases, but its impact on mobile development remains underexplored. Despite the widespread use of CI, little is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xiaoxin Zhou , Taher A. Ghaleb , Safwat Hassan

DevOps is a combination of methodologies and tools that improves the software development, build, deployment, and monitoring processes by shortening its lifecycle and improving software quality. Part of this process is CI/CD, which embodies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hugo da Gião , André Flores , Rui Pereira , Jácome Cunha

In 2006, Fowler and Foemmel defined ten core Continuous Integration (CI) practices that could increase the speed of software development feedback cycles and improve software quality. Since then, these practices have been widely adopted by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Omar Elazhary , Colin Werner , Ze Shi Li , Derek Lowlind , Neil Ernst , Margaret-Anne Storey

Software is prone to bugs and failures. Security bugs are those that expose or share privileged information and access in violation of the software's requirements. Given the seriousness of security bugs, there are centralized mechanisms for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Daito Nakano , Mingyang Yin , Ryosuke Sato , Abram Hindle , Yasutaka Kamei , Naoyasu Ubayashi

Continuous Integration (CI) requires efficient regression testing to ensure software quality without significantly delaying its CI builds. This warrants the need for techniques to reduce regression testing time, such as Test Case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Mojtaba Bagherzadeh , Nafiseh Kahani , Lionel Briand

Continuous Integration (CI) enforces repository-level correctness through multi-stage workflows and is central to modern software development, yet diagnosing and repairing CI failures remains challenging. Unlike traditional program repair,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rabeya Khatun Muna , Md Nakhla Rafi , Tse-Hsun , Chen

The popularity of continuous integration (CI) is increasing as a result of market pressure to release product features or updates frequently. The ability of CI to deliver quality at speed depends on reliable test automation. In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yuqing Wang , Mika Mäntylä , Zihao Liu , Jouni Markkula

Agile practices are receiving considerable attention from industry as an alternative to traditional software development approaches. However, there are a number of challenges in combining Agile [2] with Test-driven development (TDD) [10]…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Sandeep Sivanandan

Continuous Integration (CI) is a widely adopted practice for faster code change integration and testing. Developers often migrate between CI systems in pursuit of features like matrix building or better logging. However, this migration is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Dhia Elhaq Rzig , Alaa Houerbi , Chungha Sung , Foyzul Hassan

Cloud management systems provide abstractions and APIs for programmatically configuring cloud infrastructures. Unfortunately, residual software bugs in these systems can potentially lead to high-severity failures, such as prolonged outages…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

Continuous Integration (CI) is a cornerstone of modern software development. However, while widely adopted in traditional software projects, applying CI practices to Machine Learning (ML) projects presents distinctive characteristics. For…