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

This repository contains all the artifacts and data related to the On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices: An Empirical Study. The folder structure and their entailments are as follows:

• data: 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.
• document_analysis: Includes the analysis files for specific research questions:
  • RQ1 subdirectory: Contains the pull request (PR) comments dataset and an Excel file with the analysis data for Research Question 1.
  • 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.
• scripts: Provides the R scripts used for data analysis and chart generation.
• survey: Includes the collected survey responses and a template of the survey sent to developers.

The total size of the repository when decompressed is approximately 8.14 GB.