Software projects use build systems to automate the compilation, testing, and continuous
deployment of their software products. As software becomes increasingly configurable, the …

Continuous Integration (CI) frameworks such as Travis CI, automatically build and run tests
whenever a new commit is submitted/pushed. Although there are many advantages in using …

Developers struggle to program securely. Prior works have reviewed the methods used to
run user-studies with developers, systematized the ancestry of security API usability …

This study investigated DevOps practices and experiences in the South African software
development context, along with associated perceptions of benefits and challenges. Survey …

E2E web test suites are prone to test dependencies due to the heterogeneous multi-tiered
nature of modern web apps, which makes it difficult for developers to create isolated …

DevOps, as a growing development practice that aims to enable faster development and
efficient deployment of applications without compromising on quality, is often hampered by …

Large-scale open source communities, such as the Linux kernel, have gone through
decades of development, substantially growing in scale and complexity. In the traditional …

To ensure the quality of software systems, software engineers can make use of a variety of
quality assurance approaches, for example, software testing, modern code review …

This paper introduces the idea of mining container image repositories for configuration and
other deployment information of software systems. Unlike traditional software repositories …

Automated test case generation is an effective technique to yield high-coverage test suites.
While the majority of research effort has been devoted to satisfying coverage criteria, a …