On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices: An Empirical Study

<p>This repository contains all the artifacts and data related to the <strong>On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices: An Empirical Study</strong>. The folder structure and their entailments are as follows:</p> <ul> <li><strong>data</strong>: Contains .sql files with the dataset collected during the study, which includes all project information retrieved from GitHub. A README.txt file inside the folder explains how to restore the dataset.</li> <li><strong>document_analysis</strong>: Includes the analysis files for specific research questions: <ul> <li>RQ1 subdirectory: Contains the pull request (PR) comments dataset and an Excel file with the analysis data for Research Question 1.</li> <li>RQ3 subdirectory: Contains documentation from CI services and third-party tools analyzed in Research Question 3, along with an Excel file summarizing the analysis data.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>scripts</strong>: Provides the R scripts used for data analysis and chart generation.</li> <li><strong>survey</strong>: Includes the collected survey responses and a template of the survey sent to developers.</li> </ul> <p><br>The total size of the repository when decompressed is approximately <strong>8.14 GB</strong>.</p>