SRC001 — https://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov/publications/HiltonETAL16ContinuousIntegration.pdf¶
Contents¶
Metadata¶
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| URL | https://mir.cs.illinois.edu/marinov/publications/HiltonETAL16ContinuousIntegration.pdf |
| Authors | Michael Hilton, Timothy Tunnell, Kai Huang, Darko Marinov, Danny Dig (Oregon State University, University of Illinois) |
| Date | 2016 |
Content Summary¶
Hilton et al. (2016) analyzed 34,544 open-source projects from GitHub and found that 40% of all projects in their breadth corpus use CI. The study also surveyed 442 developers and analyzed 1.5M builds from Travis CI, finding that CI is widely adopted by the most popular projects and that CI adoption was growing over time.
Reliability: High¶
Peer-reviewed paper published at ASE 2016 with large-scale empirical data from 34,544 GitHub projects.
Relevance: High¶
Directly provides the 40% CI adoption figure that the claim references.
Bias Assessment¶
| Domain | Rating | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Missing Data | Some concerns | Study is from 2016, covering projects as of that year; CI adoption may have changed significantly since then. |
| Measurement | Low risk | Used CI configuration file presence and Travis CI API data as objective indicators of CI usage. |
| Selective Reporting | Low risk | Reports both adoption rates and reasons for non-adoption from developer survey. |
| Randomization | N/A | Observational study, not an RCT. |
| Protocol Deviation | N/A | Not an RCT. |
| Conflict Of Interest | Low risk | Academic research with no disclosed industry funding or conflicts. |