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Background: Much research has been conducted to investigate the impact of Continuous Integration (CI) on the productivity and quality of open-source projects. Most of studies have analyzed the impact of adopting a CI server service (e.g,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jadson Santos , Daniel Alencar da Costa , Uirá Kulesza

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

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

CI/CD practices play a significant role during collaborative software development by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as testing, building, quality checking, dependency and security management. GitHub Actions, the CI/CD…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pooya Rostami Mazrae , Alexandre Decan , Tom Mens , Mairieli Wessel

The constant demand for new features and bug fixes are forcing software projects to shorten cycles and deliver updates ever faster, while sustaining software quality. The availability of inexpensive, virtualized, cloud-computing has helped…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Yue Yu , Bogdan Vasilescu , Huaimin Wang , Vladimir Filkov , Premkumar Devanbu

Continuous integration (CI) tools integrate code changes by automatically compiling, building, and executing test cases upon submission of code changes. Use of CI tools is getting increasingly popular, yet how proprietary projects reap the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Akond Rahman , Amritanshu Agrawal , Rahul Krishna , Alexander Sobran

The continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are widely adopted on Internet hosting platforms, such as GitHub. With the popularity, the CI/CD pipeline faces various security threats. However, current CI/CD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ziyue Pan , Wenbo Shen , Xingkai Wang , Yutian Yang , Rui Chang , Yao Liu , Chengwei Liu , Yang Liu , Kui Ren

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that builds and tests software frequently (e.g., at every push). One main motivator to adopt CI is the potential to deliver software functionalities more quickly than not using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 João Helis Bernardo , Daniel Alencar da Costa , Uirá Kulesza , Christoph Treude

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

The acceleration of software development and delivery requires rigorous continuous testing and deployment of software systems, which are being deployed in increasingly diverse, complex, and dynamic environments. In recent years, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Quentin Perez , Romain Lefeuvre , Thomas Degueule , Olivier Barais , Benoit Combemale

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

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline automates software development to speed up and enhance the efficiency of engineering software. These workflows consist of various jobs, such as code validation and testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Simin Sun , David Friberg , Miroslaw Staron

In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jessy Ayala , Joshua Garcia

Over the past few decades, open source software has been continuously integrated into software supply chains worldwide, drastically increasing reliance and dependence. Because of the role this software plays, it is important to understand…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Elijah Kayode Adejumo , Brittany Johnson

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) are nowadays at the core of software development. Their benefits come at the cost of setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, which requires knowledge and skills often orthogonal to those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Antonio Mastropaolo , Fiorella Zampetti , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta

The growing popularity of machine learning (ML) and the integration of ML components with other software artifacts has led to the use of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools, such as Travis CI, GitHub Actions, etc. that enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dhia Elhaq Rzig , Alaa Houerbi , Rahul Ghanshyam Chavan , Foyzul Hassan

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have been demonstrated to be effective in facilitating software building, testing, and deployment. Many research studies have investigated and subsequently improved their working…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Pei Liu , Xiaoyu Sun , Yanjie Zhao , Yonghui Liu , John Grundy , Li Li

Managing technical debt (TD) is critical to ensure the sustainability of long-term software projects. However, the time and cost involved in technical debt management (TDM) often discourage practitioners from performing this activity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 João Paulo Biazotto , Daniel Feitosa , Paris Avgeriou , Elisa Yumi Nakagawa

GitHub Marketplace is expanding by approximately 41% annually, with new tools; however, many additions replicate existing functionality. We study this phenomenon in the platform's largest segment, Continuous Integration (CI), by linking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Elmira Onagh , Maleknaz Nayebi

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
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