How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?

Kinsman, Timothy; Wessel, Mairieli; Gerosa, Marco Aurélio; Treude, Christoph

doi:10.1109/msr52588.2021.00054

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“…These actions allow the automation of tasks based on various triggers and can be easily shared from one repository to another. However, the way these actions communicate in the GitHub platform is the same as bots [25], which can lead to the same interaction challenges presented in this study.…”

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confidence: 90%

Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects

Wessel¹,

Wiese²,

Steinmacher³

et al. 2021

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Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source Software (OSS) projects' pull requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be disruptive to the community. We identified several challenges caused by bots in pull request interactions by interviewing 21 practitioners, including project maintainers, contributors, and bot developers. In particular, our findings indicate noise as a recurrent and central problem. Noise affects both human communication and development workflow by overwhelming and distracting developers. Our main contribution is a theory of how human developers perceive annoying bot behaviors as noise on social coding platforms. This contribution may help practitioners understand the effects of adopting a bot, and researchers and tool designers may leverage our results to better support human-bot interaction on social coding platforms.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Open source software; • Software and its engineering → Software creation and management.

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Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects

Wessel¹,

Wiese²,

Steinmacher³

et al. 2021

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“…They found that badges displaying the build status, test coverage, and up-to-dateness of dependencies are associated with more tests, more quality pull requests, and fresher dependencies. Kinsman et al (2021) studied the effect of GitHub Action adoption by GitHub projects. The results revealed that introducing a GitHub Action leads to an increase in the number of rejected pull requests and a decrease in the commits in the merged pull requests.…”

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Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities

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Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts to group dynamics, as frequently occurs with new technology adoption. Understanding and anticipating such effects is important for planning and management. To analyze these effects, we investigate how several activity indicators change after the adoption of a code review bot. We employed a regression discontinuity design on 1,194 software projects from GitHub. We also interviewed 12 practitioners, including open-source maintainers and contributors. Our results indicate that the adoption of code review bots increases the number of monthly merged pull requests, decreases monthly non-merged pull requests, and decreases communication among developers. From the developers’ perspective, these effects are explained by the transparency and confidence the bot comments introduce, in addition to the changes in the discussion focused on pull requests. Practitioners and maintainers may leverage our results to understand, or even predict, bot effects on their projects.

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“…They additionally assembled and dissected GitHub actions related issues, finding that most of the remarks were positive. By and large, the discoveries show that GitHub's actions were generally welcomed by designers [1]. This article examines the many methodologies and innovations that can be utilized to fabricate a fruitful CI/CD pipeline.…”

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Continuous Integration and Deployment Automation in AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Sinde¹,

Thakkalapally²,

Ramidi³

et al. 2022

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Abstract-The primary objective of this project is to figure out how an application is automatically deployed. To automate the deployment, we'll require a container orchestration platform. Kubernetes is now a widely used container orchestration tool. Users can deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications thanks to Kubernetes' robustness. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) of a project is required in modern development, and the focus is on developing and executing tests on every commit to ensure your test environment is constantly up-to-date. From the integration and testing phases through the delivery and deployment phases, CI/CD brings automation and continuous monitoring of programmers throughout their lifecycle. GitHub Actions is one of the CI/CD technology available in the market. By using GitHub as a source code management tool, it's best to use GitHub Actions as a continuous integration and delivery solution because it's supplied by GitHub. This does not require any setting or setup. As a result, incorporating these tools will speed up the deployment of an application. Keywords- GitHub Actions, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Kubernetes, Workflows.

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How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects

Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects

Quality gatekeepers: investigating the effects of code review bots on pull request activities

Continuous Integration and Deployment Automation in AWS Cloud Infrastructure

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