An empirical study of the long duration of continuous integration builds

TA Ghaleb, DA Da Costa, Y Zou - Empirical Software Engineering, 2019 - Springer
Continuous Integration (CI) is a set of software development practices that allow software
development teams to generate software builds more quickly and periodically (eg, daily or …

A cost-efficient approach to building in continuous integration

X Jin, F Servant - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Which builds are really safe to skip? Maximizing failure observation for build selection in continuous integration

X Jin, F Servant - Journal of Systems and Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering.
Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice. Google and Mozilla estimate their expenses …

The impact of a continuous integration service on the delivery time of merged pull requests

JH Bernardo, DA da Costa, U Kulesza… - Empirical Software …, 2023 - Springer
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that builds and tests software
frequently (eg, at every push). One main motivator to adopt CI is the potential to deliver …

Buildfast: History-aware build outcome prediction for fast feedback and reduced cost in continuous integration

B Chen, L Chen, C Zhang, X Peng - Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Long build times in continuous integration (CI) can greatly increase the cost in human and
computing resources, and thus become a common barrier faced by software organizations …

Continuous integration theater

W Felidré, L Furtado, DA Da Costa… - 2019 ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background: Continuous Integration (CI) systems are now the bedrock of several software
development practices. Several tools such as TravisCI, CircleCI, and Hudson, that …

A large-scale empirical study of compiler errors in continuous integration

C Zhang, B Chen, L Chen, X Peng… - … of the 2019 27th ACM joint …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Continuous Integration (CI) is a widely-used software development practice to reduce risks.
CI builds often break, and a large amount of efforts are put into troubleshooting broken …

Studying the impact of adopting continuous integration on the delivery time of pull requests

JH Bernardo, DA da Costa, U Kulesza - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that leads developers to
integrate their work more frequently. Software projects have broadly adopted CI to ship new …

Accelerating continuous integration by caching environments and inferring dependencies

K Gallaba, J Ewart, Y Junqueira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To facilitate the rapid release cadence of modern software (on the order of weeks, days, or
even hours), software development organizations invest in practices like Continuous …

Lessons from eight years of operational data from a continuous integration service: an exploratory case study of circleci

K Gallaba, M Lamothe, S McIntosh - Proceedings of the 44th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular practice that enables the rapid pace of modern
software development. Cloud-based CI services have made CI ubiquitous by relieving …