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Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are central to modern software development. In large organizations, the high volume of builds and tests creates bottlenecks, especially under shared infrastructure. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Grégory Bournassenko

Companies struggle to continuously develop and deploy AI models to complex production systems due to AI characteristics while assuring quality. To ease the development process, continuous pipelines for AI have become an active research area…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Monika Steidl , Michael Felderer , Rudolf Ramler

Continuous Integration (CI) provides early feedback by automatically building software, but long build durations can hinder developer productivity. CI services use caching to speed up builds by reusing infrequently changing artifacts, yet…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Taher A. Ghaleb , Daniel Alencar da Costa , Ying Zou

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

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 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

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 and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are central to modern software delivery, yet their static workflows often introduce inefficiencies as systems scale. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) based…

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a well-established software development practice for automatically and continuously integrating code changes during software development. An increasing number of Machine Learning (ML) based approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ali Kazemi Arani , Mansooreh Zahedi , Triet Huynh Minh Le , Muhammad Ali Babar

This research conducted a systematic review of the literature on machine learning (ML)-based methods in the context of Continuous Integration (CI) over the past 22 years. The study aimed to identify and describe the techniques used in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ali Kazemi Arani , Triet Huynh Minh Le , Mansooreh Zahedi , Muhammad Ali Babar

Fuzzing has proven to be a fundamental technique to automated software testing but also a costly one. With the increased adoption of CI/CD practices in software development, a natural question to ask is `What are the best ways to integrate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Thijs Klooster , Fatih Turkmen , Gerben Broenink , Ruben ten Hove , Marcel Böhme

The rise of machine learning (ML) and its integration into software systems has drastically changed development practices. While software engineering traditionally focused on manually created code artifacts with dedicated processes and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yorick Sens , Henriette Knopp , Sven Peldszus , Thorsten Berger

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) applications has intensified the demand for integrated environments that unify model development, deployment, and monitoring. Traditional Integrated Development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiawei Jin , Yingxin Su , Xiaotong Zhu

This study presents a systematic literature review on the adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices in Very Small Entities (VSEs) in software development. The research analyzes 13 selected studies to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mario Ccallo , Alex Quispe-Quispe

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

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

With the increasing adoption of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines, securing software supply chains has become a critical challenge for modern DevOps teams. This study addresses these challenges by applying a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sowmiya Dhandapani

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 is an indispensable step of modern software engineering practices to systematically manage the life cycles of system development. Developing a machine learning model is no difference - it is an engineering process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Cedric Renggli , Bojan Karlaš , Bolin Ding , Feng Liu , Kevin Schawinski , Wentao Wu , Ce Zhang

CI/CD pipeline failure management is time-consuming when performed manually. Automating this process is non-trivial because the information required for effective failure management is unstructured and cannot be automatically processed by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Duong Bui , Stefan Grintz , Alexander Berndt , Thomas Bach