RT Conference Proceedings
T1 A Cost-efficient Approach to Building in Continuous Integration.
A1 Jin, Xianhao
A1 Servant-Cortés, Francisco Javier
K1 Ingeniería del software
AB Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice — Google and Mozilla estimate their CI systems in millions of dollars. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reducing the cost of CI. The cost of CI lies in the computing power to run builds and its value mostly lies on letting developers find bugs early — when their size is still small. Thus, we target reducing the number of builds that CI executes by still executing as many failing builds as early as possible. To achieve this goal, we propose SmartBuildSkip, a technique which predicts the first builds in a sequence of build failures and the remaining build failures separately. SmartBuildSkip is customizable, allowing developers to select different preferred trade-offs of saving many builds vs. observing build failures early. We evaluate the motivating hypothesis of SmartBuildSkip, its prediction power, and its cost savings in a realistic scenario. In its most conservative configuration, SmartBuildSkip saved a median 30% of builds by only incurring a median delay of 1 build in a median of 15% failing builds.
PB Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34855
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34855
LA eng
NO Xianhao Jin and Francisco Servant. 2020. A cost-efficient approach to building in continuous integration. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New Y ork, NY , USA, 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377811.3380437
NO Correo 25/10/24
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026