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Wed 12 Oct 2022 11:40 - 12:00 at Banquet B - Technical Session 12 - Builds and Versions Chair(s): Yi Li

Despite the benefits, continuous integration (CI) can incur high costs. One of the well-recognized costs is long build time, which greatly affects the speed of software development and increases the cost in computational resources. While there exist configuration options in the CI infrastructure to accelerate builds, the CI infrastructure is often not optimally configured, leading to CI configuration smells. Attempts have been made to detect or repair CI configuration smells. However, none of them is specifically designed to improve build performance in CI.

In this paper, we first create a catalog of 20 performance-related CI configuration smells (PCSs) in three tools (i.e., Travis CI, Maven and Gradle) of the CI infrastructure for Java projects. Then, we propose an automated approach, named BuildSonic, to detect and repair 15 types of PCSs by analyzing configuration files. We have conducted large-scale experiments to evaluate BuildSonic. We detected 20,318 PCSs in 99.0% of the 4,140 Java projects, with a precision of 0.998 and a recall of 0.991. We submitted 1,138 pull requests for sampled PCSs of each PCS type, 246 and 11 of which have been respectively merged and accepted by developers. We successfully triggered CI builds before and after merging 288 pull requests, and observed an average build performance improvement of 12.4% after repairing a PCS.

Wed 12 Oct

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10:00 - 12:00
Technical Session 12 - Builds and VersionsResearch Papers at Banquet B
Chair(s): Yi Li Nanyang Technological University
10:00
20m
Research paper
HyperAST: Enabling Efficient Analysis of Software Histories at ScaleACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Quentin Le-dilavrec Univ. Rennes, IRISA, INRIA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, France, Arnaud Blouin Univ Rennes, INSA Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Jean-Marc Jézéquel Univ Rennes - IRISA
10:20
20m
Research paper
Has My Release Disobeyed Semantic Versioning? Static Detection Based On Semantic DifferencingACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University, Sen Chen Tianjin University, Lingling Fan Nankai University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
10:40
20m
Research paper
Detecting Build Conflicts in Software Merge for Java Programs via Static Analysis
Research Papers
Sheikh Shadab Towqir Virginia Tech, Bowen Shen Virginia Tech, Muhammad Ali Gulzar Virginia Tech, USA, Na Meng Virginia Tech
11:00
20m
Research paper
SmartPip: A Smart Approach to Resolving Python Dependency Conflict IssuesVirtual
Research Papers
Chao Wang School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Rongxin Wu Xiamen University, Haohao Song School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Jiwu Shu School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Guoqing Li Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd.
11:20
20m
Research paper
Accelerating Build Dependency Error Detection via Virtual BuildVirtual
Research Papers
Rongxin Wu Xiamen University, Minglei Chen School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Chengpeng Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Gang Fan Ant Group, Jiguang Qiu Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co., Ltd., Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11:40
20m
Research paper
BuildSonic: Detecting and Repairing Performance-Related Configuration Smells for Continuous Integration BuildsVirtual
Research Papers
Chen Zhang Fudan University, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Junhao Hu Fudan University, Xin Peng Fudan University, Wenyun Zhao Fudan University, China