Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects
Buggy software impacts people’s lives and businesses. Nowadays, a huge portion of a software project’s cost is spent on debugging (finding and fixing bugs). Therefore, reducing the time needed to release new software versions free from bugs becomes crucial. Continuous delivery (CD) arises as an alternative to traditional software release engineering by providing the capability to faster and continuously release software to customers through automated pipelines. Previous studies claim that CD adoption leads to a reduction in the software release cycle time, including the time lag to fix reported bugs (bug-fixing time) and apply correction patches in the affected versions. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting (or not) this claim. To fulfill this gap, we conducted an empirical study to evaluate the impact of CD adoption in the bug-fixing time. We study 25 open-source projects comparing the bug-fixing time before and after adopting CD. Our results show that bug-fixing time after CD adoption becomes shorter (with statistical significance) than the bug-fixing time before CD adoption.
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12:00 - 12:50 | Mining ChallengeMining Challenge / Technical Papers at MSR Main room - even hours Chair(s): Steffen Herbold TU Clausthal | ||
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12:04 4mTalk | Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers Mining Challenge Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print | ||
12:08 4mTalk | Is Refactoring Always a Good Egg? Exploring the Interconnection Between Bugs and Refactorings Mining Challenge File Attached | ||
12:12 4mTalk | On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code Mining Challenge Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:16 4mTalk | Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and RefactoringBest Mining Challenge Paper Award Mining Challenge Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:20 4mTalk | Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects Mining Challenge Carlos Diego Andrade de Almeida Federal University of Ceará, Diego N. Feijó Federal University of Ceará, Lincoln Rocha Federal University of Ceará Media Attached | ||
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12:28 22mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||