Practitioners use infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts to provision servers and development
environments. While developing IaC scripts, practitioners may inadvertently introduce …

Continuous integration, delivery and deployment (CI/CD) is used to support the collaborative
software development process. CI/CD tools automate a wide range of activities in the …

In 2006, Fowler and Foemmel defined ten core Continuous Integration (CI) practices that
could increase the speed of software development feedback cycles and improve software …

Context: Security smells are recurring coding patterns that are indicative of security
weakness and require further inspection. As infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts, such as …

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the
century. It has impacted different business sectors around the world and software …

Context: Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto tool for automated container
orchestration. Business and government organizations are increasingly adopting …

Defects in infrastructure as code (IaC) scripts can have serious consequences, for example,
creating large-scale system outages. A taxonomy of IaC defects can be useful for …

Context: The ultimate goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to support developers in
integrating changes into production constantly and quickly through automated build process …

Abstract Context: Machine Learning (ML), including Deep Learning (DL), based systems,
have become ubiquitous in today's solutions to many real-world problems. ML-based …

During the last few years, Continuous Integration (CI) has become a common practice in
open-source and industrial environments to reduce the scope for errors and increase the …