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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 a well-established practice in traditional software development, but its nuances in the domain of Machine Learning (ML) projects remain relatively unexplored. Given the distinctive nature of ML development,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 João Helis Bernardo , Daniel Alencar da Costa , Sérgio Queiroz de Medeiros , Uirá Kulesza

The software industry is experiencing a surge in the adoption of Continuous Integration (CI) practices, both in commercial and open-source environments. CI practices facilitate the seamless integration of code changes by employing automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Hajer Mhalla , Mohamed Aymen Saied

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

Due to hardware-software co-development in embedded systems, continuous integration (CI) builds frequently fail because of complex cross-compilation, board configurations, and toolchain constraints. Although CI build logs contain valuable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Han Fu , Andreas Ermedahl , Sigrid Eldh , Kristian Wiklund , Philipp Haller , Cyrille Artho

Continuous integration (CI) has become a ubiquitous practice in modern software development, with major code hosting services offering free automation on popular platforms. CI offers major benefits, as it enables detecting bugs in code…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Todd Gamblin , Daniel S. Katz

Incremental and parallel builds are crucial features of modern build systems. Parallelism enables fast builds by running independent tasks simultaneously, while incrementality saves time and computing resources by processing the build…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Stefanos Chaliasos , Dimitris Mitropoulos , Diomidis Spinellis

Continuous integration (CI) is widely used by developers to ensure the quality and reliability of their software projects. However, diagnosing a CI regression is a tedious process that involves the manual analysis of lengthy build logs. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Nicolas Hubner , Jean-Rémy Falleri , Raluca Uricaru , Thomas Degueule , Thomas Durieux

A core goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make small incremental changes to software projects, which are integrated frequently into a mainline repository or branch. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates if…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Sebastian Baltes , Jascha Knack , Daniel Anastasiou , Ralf Tymann , Stephan Diehl

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

Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for embedded software sometimes fail during compilation, consuming significant developer time for debugging. We study four major open-source embedded system projects, spanning over 4000 build failures…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Han Fu , Andreas Ermedahl , Sigrid Eldh , Kristian Wiklund , Philipp Haller , Cyrille Artho

A long continuous integration (CI) build forces developers to wait for CI feedback before starting subsequent development activities, leading to time wasted. In addition to a variety of build scheduling and test selection heuristics studied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shenyu Zheng , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

Peer code review and continuous integration often interleave with each other in the modern software quality management. Although several studies investigate how non-technical factors (e.g., reviewer workload), developer participation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

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

Non-functional requirements (NFR), which include performance, availability, and maintainability, are vitally important to overall software quality. However, research has shown NFRs are, in practice, poorly defined and difficult to verify.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Colin Werner , Ze Shi Li , Derek Lowlind , Omar Elazhary , Neil Ernst , Daniela Damian

Building a shared understanding of non-functional requirements (NFRs) is a known but understudied challenge in requirements engineering, especially in organizations that adopt continuous software engineering (CSE) practices. During the peak…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Laura Okpara , Colin Werner , Adam Murray , Daniela Damian

Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) is widely adopted in the industry, integrating practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Beyond technical aspects, CSE also encompasses business activities like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Anastasiia Tkalich , Eriks Klotins , Nils Brede Moe

Fault-detection, localization, and repair methods are vital to software quality; but it is difficult to evaluate their generality, applicability, and current effectiveness. Large, diverse, realistic datasets of durably-reproducible faults…

It's long been accepted that continuous integration (CI) in software engineering increases the code quality of enterprise projects when adhered to by it's practitioners. But is any of that effort to increase code quality and velocity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Parth Sane

In recent years, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) has been heatedly discussed and widely used in part or all of the software development life cycle as the practices and pipeline to deliver software products in an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yajing Luo , Peng Liang , Mojtaba Shahin , Zengyang Li , Chen Yang