TY - GEN
T1 - A First Look at CI/CD Adoptions in Open-Source Android Apps
AU - Liu, Pei
AU - Sun, Xiaoyu
AU - Zhao, Yanjie
AU - Liu, Yonghui
AU - Grundy, John
AU - Li, Li
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/9/19
Y1 - 2022/9/19
N2 - Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have been demonstrated to be effective in facilitating software building, testing, and deployment. Many research studies have investigated and subsequently improved their working processes. Unfortunately, such research efforts have largely not touched on the usage of CI/CD in the development of Android apps. We fill this gap by conducting an exploratory study of CI/CD adoption in open-source Android apps. We start by collecting a set of 84,475 open-source Android apps from the most popular three online code hosting sites, namely Github, GitLab, and Bitbucket. We then look into those apps and find that (1) only around 10% of apps have leveraged CI/CD services, i.e., the majority of open-source Android apps are developed without accessing CI/CD services, (2) a small number of apps (291) has even adopted multiple CI/CD services, (3) nearly half of the apps adopted CI/CD services have not really used them, and (4) CI/CD services are useful to improve the popularity of projects.
AB - Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have been demonstrated to be effective in facilitating software building, testing, and deployment. Many research studies have investigated and subsequently improved their working processes. Unfortunately, such research efforts have largely not touched on the usage of CI/CD in the development of Android apps. We fill this gap by conducting an exploratory study of CI/CD adoption in open-source Android apps. We start by collecting a set of 84,475 open-source Android apps from the most popular three online code hosting sites, namely Github, GitLab, and Bitbucket. We then look into those apps and find that (1) only around 10% of apps have leveraged CI/CD services, i.e., the majority of open-source Android apps are developed without accessing CI/CD services, (2) a small number of apps (291) has even adopted multiple CI/CD services, (3) nearly half of the apps adopted CI/CD services have not really used them, and (4) CI/CD services are useful to improve the popularity of projects.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85146934699
U2 - 10.1145/3551349.3561341
DO - 10.1145/3551349.3561341
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85146934699
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2022
A2 - Aehnelt, Mario
A2 - Kirste, Thomas
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2022
Y2 - 10 October 2022 through 14 October 2022
ER -