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Docker is a popular tool for developers and organizations to package, deploy, and run applications in a lightweight, portable container. One key component of Docker is the Dockerfile, a simple text file that specifies the steps needed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Thomas Durieux

Docker is becoming ubiquitous with containerization for developing and deploying applications. Previous studies have analyzed Dockerfiles that are used to create container images in order to better understand how to improve Docker tooling.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Kalvin Eng , Abram Hindle

Docker, a widely adopted tool for packaging and deploying applications leverages Dockerfiles to build images. However, creating an optimal Dockerfile can be challenging, often leading to "Docker smells" or deviations from best practices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Thomas Durieux

Docker, the industry standard for packaging and deploying applications, leverages Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to facilitate the creation of images through Dockerfiles. However, maintaining Dockerfiles presents significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Emna Ksontini , Meriem Mastouri , Rania Khalsi , Wael Kessentini

The reproducibility of software environments is a critical concern in modern software engineering, with ramifications ranging from the effectiveness of collaboration workflows to software supply chain security and scientific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Julien Malka , Stefano Zacchiroli , Théo Zimmermann

Code review plays an important role in software quality control. A typical review process would involve a careful check of a piece of code in an attempt to find defects and other quality issues/violations. One type of issues that may impact…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Xiaofeng Han , Amjed Tahir , Peng Liang , Steve Counsell , Yajing Luo

Code review that detects and locates defects and other quality issues plays an important role in software quality control. One type of issue that may impact the quality of software is code smells. Yet, little is known about the extent to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xiaofeng Han , Amjed Tahir , Peng Liang , Steve Counsell , Kelly Blincoe , Bing Li , Yajing Luo

Docker has gained attention as a lightweight container-based virtualization platform. The process for building a Docker image is defined in a text file called a Dockerfile. A Dockerfile can be considered as a kind of source code that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yuki Goto , Shinsuke Matsumoto , Shinji Kusumoto

As Deep learning (DL) systems continuously evolve and grow, assuring their quality becomes an important yet challenging task. Compared to non-DL systems, DL systems have more complex team compositions and heavier data dependency. These…

Containerization allows developers to define the execution environment in which their software needs to be installed. Docker is the leading platform in this field, and developers that use it are required to write a Dockerfile for their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Giovanni Rosa , Antonio Mastropaolo , Simone Scalabrino , Gabriele Bavota , Rocco Oliveto

Reproducible container builds promise a simple integrity check for software supply chains: rebuild an image from its Dockerfile and compare hashes. We build a Docker measurement pipeline and apply it to a stratified sample of 2,000 GitHub…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Oreofe Solarin

\underline{Context:} Logging is a fundamental yet complex practice in software engineering, essential for monitoring, debugging, and auditing software systems. With the increasing integration of machine learning (ML) components into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Patrick Loic Foalem , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh , Ettore Merlo , Heng Li

With the growing use of DevOps tools and frameworks, there is an increased need for tools and techniques that support more than code. The current state-of-the-art in static developer assistance for tools like Docker is limited to shallow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jordan Henkel , Christian Bird , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Reps

Dockerfiles are one of the most prevalent kinds of DevOps artifacts used in industry. Despite their prevalence, there is a lack of sophisticated semantics-aware static analysis of Dockerfiles. In this paper, we introduce a dataset of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jordan Henkel , Christian Bird , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Thomas Reps

Docker allows for the packaging of applications and dependencies, and its instructions are described in Dockerfiles. Nowadays, version pinning is recommended to avoid unexpected changes in the latest version of a package. However, version…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Takeru Tanaka , Hideaki Hata , Bodin Chinthanet , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Kenichi Matsumoto

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are widely adopted in software engineering practice. In reality, the CI/CD pipeline execution is not yet reliably continuous because it is often interrupted by Docker build…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mingjie Li , Xiaoying Bai , Minghua Ma , Dan Pei

Build scripts automate the process of compiling source code, managing dependencies, running tests, and packaging software into deployable artifacts. These scripts are ubiquitous in modern software development pipelines for streamlining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mahzabin Tamanna , Yash Chandrani , Matthew Burrows , Brandon Wroblewski , Laurie Williams , Dominik Wermke

Docker is a tool for lightweight OS-level virtualization. Docker images are created by performing a build, controlled by a source-level artifact called a Dockerfile. We studied Dockerfiles on GitHub, and -- to our great surprise -- found…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Jordan Henkel , Denini Silva , Leopoldo Teixeira , Marcelo d'Amorim , Thomas Reps

The learning and usage of an API is supported by official documentation. Like source code, API documentation is itself a software product. Several research results show that bad design in API documentation can make the reuse of API features…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

Dockerfile flakiness-unpredictable temporal build failures caused by external dependencies and evolving environments-undermines deployment reliability and increases debugging overhead. Unlike traditional Dockerfile issues, flakiness occurs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Taha Shabani , Noor Nashid , Parsa Alian , Ali Mesbah
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