NDLI: Inadequate testing, time pressure, and (over) confidence: a tale of continuous integration users

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Pinto, Gustavo Castor, Fernando Rebouças, Marcel
Abstract	Continuous Integration (CI) prescribes that changes should be integrated into the main codebase as often as possible and that the system should be built frequently. To support CI, a number of software tools have been developed. However, little is known about the main reasons for build breakage and whether CI delivers its promise of early problem detection and smooth integration. To shed light on this issue, we conducted a survey with 158 CI users. Through a qualitative investigation we found that inadequate testing is the most common technical reason related to build breakage, whereas lack of time plays a role on the social reasons. Still, although some respondents reported that CI usage increases the confidence that the code is in a known state, some respondents also reported that there is a false sense of confidence when blindly trusting tests.
Starting Page	74
Ending Page	77
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781538640395
DOI	10.1109/CHASE.2017.13
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-05-20
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Build breakage Survey Continuous integration
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Inadequate testing, time pressure, and (over) confidence: a tale of continuous integration users