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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia
Tue 22 Sep 2020 02:40 - 03:00 at Wombat - Maintenance and Evolution (1) Chair(s): Yi Li

Long build times in continuous integration (CI) can greatly increase the cost in human and computing resources, and thus become a common barrier faced by software organizations adopting CI. Build outcome prediction has been proposed as one of the remedies to reduce such cost. However, the state-of-the-art approaches have a poor prediction performance for failed builds, and are not designed for practical usage scenarios. To address the problems, we first conduct an empirical study on 2,590,917 builds to characterize builds times in real-world projects, and a survey with 75 developers to understand their perceptions about build outcome prediction. Then, motivated by our study and survey results, we propose a new history-aware approach, named BuildFast, to predict CI build outcomes cost-efficiently and practically. It can help to obtain fast integration feedback and reduce integration cost. In particular, we introduce multiple failure-specific features from closely related historical builds via analyzing build logs and changed files, and propose an adaptive prediction model to switch between two models based on the build outcome of the previous build. We also investigate a practical online usage scenario of BuildFast, where builds are predicted in chronological order, and measure the benefit from correct predictions and the cost from incorrect predictions. Our experiments on 20 projects have demonstrated that BuildFast can improve the state-of-the-art approach by 47.5% in F1-score for failed builds.

Tue 22 Sep

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02:20 - 03:20
Maintenance and Evolution (1)Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Wombat
Chair(s): Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
02:20
20m
Talk
Learning to Handle Exceptions
Research Papers
Jian Zhang Beihang University, Xu Wang Beihang University, Hongyu Zhang University of Newcastle, Australia, Hailong Sun Beihang University, Yanjun Pu Beihang University, Xudong Liu Beihang University
Pre-print
02:40
20m
Talk
BuildFast: History-Aware Build Outcome Prediction for Fast Feedback and Reduced Cost in Continuous Integration
Research Papers
Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Linlin Chen Fudan University, Chen Zhang Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University, China
03:00
10m
Talk
OSLDetector: Identifying Open-Source Libraries through Binary Analysis
Tool Demonstrations
Dan Zhang Tsinghua University