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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Wed 29 May 2019 15:00 - 15:20 at Viger - Continuous Integration Chair(s): Ipek Ozkaya

Continuous Integration (CI) is a widely-used software engineering practice. The software is continuously built so that changes can be easily integrated and issues such as unmet quality goals or style inconsistencies get detected early. Unfortunately, it is not only hard to introduce CI into an existing project, but it is also challenging to live up to the CI principles when facing tough deadlines or business decisions. Previous work has identified common anti-patterns that reduce the promised benefits of CI. Typically, these anti-patterns slowly creep into a project over time before they are identified. We argue that automated detection can help with early identification and prevent such a process decay. In this work, we further analyze this assumption and survey 124 developers about CI anti-patterns. From the results, we build CI-Odor, a reporting tool for CI processes that detects the existence of four relevant anti-patterns by analyzing regular build logs and repository information. In a study on the 18,474 build logs of 36 popular Java projects, we reveal the presence of 3,823 high-severity warnings spread across projects. We validate our reports in a survey among 13 original developers of these projects and through general feedback from 42 developers that confirm the relevance of our reports.

Wed 29 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Continuous IntegrationSoftware Engineering in Practice / Technical Track / Papers at Viger
Chair(s): Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
14:00
20m
Talk
Big Bangs and Small Pops: On Critical Cyclomatic Complexity and Developer Integration BehaviorSEIPIndustry Program
Software Engineering in Practice
Daniel Ståhl Ericsson AB, Antonio Martini University of Oslo, Norway, Torvald Mårtensson Saab AB
14:20
20m
Talk
Predictive Test SelectionSEIPIndustry Program
Software Engineering in Practice
Mateusz Machalica Facebook, Inc., Alex Samylkin Facebook, Inc., Meredith Porth Facebook, Inc., Satish Chandra Facebook
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Assessing Transition-based Test Selection Algorithms at GoogleSEIPIndustry Program
Software Engineering in Practice
Claire Leong Google / UNSW, Abhayendra Singh Google, Inc, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, John Micco Netflix
Pre-print
15:00
20m
Talk
Automated Reporting of Anti-Patterns and Decay in Continuous IntegrationArtifacts AvailableArtifacts Evaluated ReusableTechnical Track
Technical Track
Carmine Vassallo University of Zurich, Sebastian Proksch University of Zurich, Harald Gall University of Zurich, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Discussion Period
Papers