ESEIW 2024
Sun 20 - Fri 25 October 2024 Barcelona, Spain

In the GitHub ecosystem, workflows are used as an effective means to automate development tasks and to set up a Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD pipeline). GitHub Actions (GHA) have been conceived to provide developers with a practical tool to create and maintain workflows, avoiding “reinventing the wheel” and cluttering the workflow with shell commands. Properly leveraging the power of GitHub Actions can facilitate the development processes, enhance collaboration, and significantly impact project outcomes. To expose actions to search engines, GitHub allows developers to assign them to one or more categories manually. These are used as an effective means to group actions sharing similar functionality. Nevertheless, while providing a practical way to execute workflows, many actions have unclear purposes, and sometimes they are not categorized. In this work, we bridge such a gap by conceptualizing Gavel, a practical solution to increasing the visibility of actions in GitHub. By leveraging the content of README.MD files for each action, we use Transformer–a deep learning algorithm–to assign suitable categories to the action. We conducted an empirical investigation and compared Gavel with a state-of-the-art baseline. The experimental results show that our proposed approach can assign categories to GitHub actions effectively, thus outperforming the state-of-the-art baseline.

Thu 24 Oct

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11:00 - 12:35
11:00
20m
Full-paper
Sustaining Maintenance Labor for Healthy Open Source Software Projects through Human Infrastructure: A Maintainer Perspective
ESEM Technical Papers
Johan Linåker RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Georg Link Bitergia, Kevin Lumbard Creighton University
11:20
20m
Full-paper
Documenting Ethical Considerations in Open Source AI Models
ESEM Technical Papers
Haoyu Gao The University of Melbourne, Mansooreh Zahedi The Univeristy of Melbourne, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Sarita Rosenstock the University of Melbourne, Marc Cheong the University of Melbourne
Pre-print
11:40
20m
Full-paper
An Exploratory Mixed-methods Study on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance in Open-Source Software
ESEM Technical Papers
Lucas Franke Virginia Tech, Huayu Liang Virginia Tech, Sahar Farzanehpour Virginia Tech, Aaron Brantly Virginia Tech, James C. Davis Purdue University, Chris Brown Virginia Tech
Pre-print
12:00
20m
Full-paper
An Empirical Study of API Misuses of Data-Centric Libraries
ESEM Technical Papers
Akalanka Galappaththi University of Alberta, Sarah Nadi New York University Abu Dhabi, University of Alberta, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University
Pre-print
12:20
15m
Vision and Emerging Results
Automatic Categorization of GitHub Actions with Transformers and Few-shot Learning
ESEM Emerging Results, Vision and Reflection Papers Track
Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila, Juri Di Rocco University of L'Aquila, Claudio Di Sipio University of L'Aquila, Mudita Shakya University of L'Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy
Pre-print