Analyzing Similar Build Configurations Across Different GitHub Projects

GitHub is the home of hundreds of millions of Open Source Software(OSS) repositories where users collaborate on projects and find inspiration for new ideas. Some of these projects have certain build configurations set up to make building, testing, and deploying the software more time-efficient and less error-prone. However, setting up the...

GitHub Mining: The Implementation of Continuous Integration Pipelines

While continuous integration has already been proven to positively affect software development, little is known about how it should be implemented based on project context. This paper investigates how CI pipelines are configured by analysing data mined from software projects on GitHub. This re- search has shown the continued rise of the CI plat-...

Exploring Descriptive Metrics of Build Performance: A Study of GitHub Actions in Continuous Integration Projects

The Continuous Integration (CI) practice, has been rapidly growing and developing ever since it's introduction. This practice has been constantly providing benefits to developers such as early bug detection and feedback to development teams. In this study, we aim to identify the descriptive metrics that best illustrate the performance of the CI...