On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem

A Decan, T Mens, HO Delicheh - Journal of Systems and Software, 2023 - Elsevier
GitHub Actions was introduced as a way to automate CI/CD workflows in GitHub, the largest
social coding platform. Thanks to its deep integration into GitHub, GitHub Actions can be …

The GitHub development workflow automation ecosystems

M Wessel, T Mens, A Decan, PR Mazrae - Software Ecosystems: Tooling …, 2023 - Springer
Large-scale software development has become a highly collaborative and geographically
distributed endeavor, especially in open-source software development ecosystems and their …

Quantifying Security Issues in Reusable JavaScript Actions in GitHub Workflows

HO Delicheh, A Decan, T Mens - 2024 IEEE/ACM 21st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GitHub's integrated automated workflow mechanism called GitHub Actions promotes the use
of Actions as reusable building blocks in workflows. The majority of those Actions are …

A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories

G Cardoen, T Mens, A Decan - 2024 IEEE/ACM 21st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GitHub Actions is the de facto workflow automation tool for GitHub repositories. Its popularity
has increased dramatically over the recent years, opening up opportunities for empirical …

The Classics Never Go Out of Style: An Empirical Study of Downgrades from the Bazel Build Technology

M Alfadel, S McIntosh - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Software build systems specify how source code is transformed into deliverables. Keeping
build systems in sync with the software artifacts that they build while retaining their capacity …

The Vocabulary of Flaky Tests in the Context of SAP HANA

A Berndt, Z Nochta, T Bach - 2023 ACM/IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background. Automated test execution is an important activity to gather information about
the quality of a software project. So-called flaky tests, however, negatively affect this process …

Quantifying Security Issues in Reusable JavaScript Actions in GitHub Workflows

A Decan, T Mens - 21st International Conference on Mining …, 2024 - orbi.umons.ac.be
GitHub's integrated automated workflow mechanism called GitHub Actions promotes the use
of Actions as reusable building blocks in workflows. The majority of those Actions are …

[PDF][PDF] A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Dependencies

HO Delicheh, A Decan, T Mens - CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2023 - ceur-ws.org
GitHub Actions was introduced in 2019 as a software development workflow automation
tool, allowing to automate a wide range of social and technical activities in GitHub …

[PDF][PDF] Applying DevOps Practices for Quality and Reliability Improvement in Cloud-Based Systems

S Tatineni - Technix international journal for engineering research …, 2023 - academia.edu
The rising need for high-quality software development processes across different stages has
created unmatched pressure. To deal with this burden, DevOps is the leading solution …

Simulating Cloud Environments of Connected Vehicles for Anomaly Detection

M Weiß, J Stümpfle, F Dettinger, N Jazdi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The emergence of connected vehicles is driven by increasing customer and regulatory
demands. To meet these, more complex software applications, some of which require …