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On the GitHub Actions Language: Usage, Evolution, and Workflow Reliability
Aref Talebzadeh Bardsiri, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens
Developers often struggle with maintaining GitHub Actions workflow configurations in GitHub-hosted repositories, with recent studies showing frequent execution failures. This paper…
An Empirical Study of the Evolution of GitHub Actions Workflows
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens +1
CI/CD practices play a significant role during collaborative software development by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as testing, building, quality checking, dep…
Automation and Reuse Practices in GitHub Actions Workflows: A Practitioner's Perspective
Hassan Onsori Delicheh, Guillaume Cardoen, Alexandre Decan +1
GitHub natively supports workflow automation through GitHub Actions. Yet, workflow maintenance is often considered a burden for software developers, who frequently face difficultie…
An Overview and Catalogue of Dependency Challenges in Open Source Software Package Registries
Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan
While open-source software has enabled significant levels of reuse to speed up software development, it has also given rise to the dreadful dependency hell that all software practi…
The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems
Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan +1
Large-scale software development has become a highly collaborative and geographically distributed endeavour, especially in open-source software development ecosystems and their ass…
Leveraging Predictions from Multiple Repositories to Improve Bot Detection
Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Mehdi Golzadeh
Contemporary social coding platforms such as GitHub facilitate collaborative distributed software development. Developers engaged in these platforms often use machine accounts (bot…