The impact of a continuous integration service on the delivery time of merged pull requests

• Main Authors: BERNARDO, João Helis, DA COSTA, Daniel Alencar, KULESZA, Uirá, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Continuous integration; Pull request; Delivery time; Code review; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8769; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9772/viewcontent/joao.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that builds and tests software frequently (e.g., at every push). One main motivator to adopt CI is the potential to deliver software functionalities more quickly than not using CI. However, there is little empirical evidence to support t...