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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Continuous code quality: are we (really) doing that?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Carmine Vassallo
  • Fabio Palomba
  • Alberto Bacchelli
  • Harald C Gall
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISBN 9781450359375
Page Range 790 - 795
Event Title ASE '18: 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Event Type conference
Event Location Montpellier France
Event Start Date October 3 - 2018
Event End Date October 7 - 2018
Place of Publication New York, NY, USA
Publisher ACM
Abstract Text Continuous Integration (CI) is a software engineering practice where developers constantly integrate their changes to a project through an automated build process. The goal of CI is to provide developers with prompt feedback on several quality dimensions after each change. Indeed, previous studies provided empirical evidence on a positive association between properly following CI principles and source code quality. A core principle behind CI is Continuous Code Quality (also known as CCQ, which includes automated testing and automated code inspection) may appear simple and effective, yet we know little about its practical adoption. In this paper, we propose a preliminary empirical investigation aimed at understanding how rigorously practitioners follow CCQ. Our study reveals a strong dichotomy between theory and practice: developers do not perform continuous inspection but rather control for quality only at the end of a sprint and most of the times only on the release branch. Preprint [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1341036]. Data and Materials [http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1341015].
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/3238147.3240729
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20234
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