The impact of continuous integration on other software development practices: A large-scale empirical study

• Published in: 2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) pp. 60 - 71
• Main Authors: Yangyang Zhao, Serebrenik, Alexander, Yuming Zhou, Filkov, Vladimir, Vasilescu, Bogdan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Automation; Best practices; Open source software; Testing

Continuous Integration (CI) has become a disruptive innovation in software development: with proper tool support and adoption, positive effects have been demonstrated for pull request throughput and scaling up of project sizes. As any other innovation, adopting CI implies adapting existing practices...