Mitigating Waste That Tacitly Accrues in Continuous Integration Pipelines
Continuous Integration (CI, i.e., the automatic build and test cycle applied to the change sets that development teams produce) has become a standard practice of modern software development. CI enables rapid feedback on code changes and fosters seamless integration in collaborative environments. While CI adoption enhances productivity and software quality, compute resources that enable CI are a shared commodity that organizations need to manage. As projects evolve, the complexity of CI pipelines introduces potential inefficiencies, such as prolonged CI build durations and frequent build restarts. Much of these inefficiencies are explicit, where developers are consciously aware of the overuse of CI resources, i.e., build time. However, there are also tacitly wasted CI resources that accumulate unnoticed. For example, inefficiencies in the CI environment, configurations, or dependencies can gradually extend CI build times and increase resource consumption. In this thesis, we focus on tacitly accrued CI waste, hypothesizing that neglecting such inefficiencies depletes CI resources substantially. In particular, we aim to quantify and characterize this waste by examining inefficiencies in the CI environment, CI configurations, and dependency configurations, and provide solutions to mitigate such waste.
Tue 29 AprDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
14:00 - 15:00 | Session 3: Maintenance (talks and panel)Doctoral Symposium at 212 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
14:00 6mTalk | Concern-based Management of Software Design Complexity Doctoral Symposium Jason Lefever Drexel University | ||
14:06 6mTalk | Mitigating Waste That Tacitly Accrues in Continuous Integration Pipelines Doctoral Symposium Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana University of Waterloo Pre-print | ||
14:12 6mTalk | Automated Detection and Refactoring of Mock Clones in Java Projects Doctoral Symposium Gengwu Zhao Stevens Institute of Technology | ||
14:18 6mTalk | Practical Preprocessing of Logs at Scale Doctoral Symposium JianChen Zhao University of Waterloo | ||
14:24 6mTalk | Bridging the Gap Between Log Parsing Techniques and Practitioners: Challenges and Solutions Doctoral Symposium Hetong Dai University of Waterloo | ||
14:30 30mPanel | Panel: Maintenance Doctoral Symposium Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Wesley Assunção Johannes Kepler University Linz, Hetong Dai University of Waterloo, Jason Lefever Drexel University, Nimmi Weeraddana University of Waterloo, JianChen Zhao University of Waterloo, Gengwu Zhao Stevens Institute of Technology |