Taking Control of Your Engineering Tools

Prasad, Chandra; Schulte, Wolfram

doi:10.1109/mc.2013.337

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“…Fundamen-400 tally, build systems construct deliverables based on build specification files written in a configuration language [29]. Build specifications can include instructions for compiling code, executing test cases, packaging project files and deploying new software releases [30]. Build tools which can interpret the specifications also help the developers in managing the internal and external dependencies 405 of software, for instance with the help of proprietary mechanisms for resolving used external libraries [29].…”

Section: Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…resource shortages when a great number of build artifacts needs to be created over and over again, an issue which can be alleviated with the help of incremental builds or cloud-based parallel execution of tasks [30].…”

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“…In addition, we investigate why tooling is not used for some phases and does the missing tooling have effect on the speed of delivery. We conducted interviews with the representatives of 18 Finnish software 30 organizations. The organizations were of different sizes and represented several business domains to get a comprehensive view on the phenomenon.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Improving the delivery cycle: A multiple-case study of the toolchains in Finnish software intensive enterprises

Mäkinen

Leppänen

Kilamo

et al. 2016

Information and Software Technology

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Section: Developmentmentioning

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Improving the delivery cycle: A multiple-case study of the toolchains in Finnish software intensive enterprises

Mäkinen

Leppänen

Kilamo

et al. 2016

Information and Software Technology

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“…RELATED WORK Despite the recent move of the software industry to CI [4], [19], [22], [31], [32], there has been little research on CI. The rest of this section overviews several empirical studies, code smell detection and refactoring tools for build specifications and discusses our work with respect to software remodularization and regression testing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Then, it runs all the tests that transitively depend on the affected code [15], [19], [25], [37]. Google, other companies [4], [18], [22], [31], [32], and open-source projects have adopted this practice [44], [45], [49].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated Decomposition of Build Targets

Vakilian

Sauciuc

Morgenthaler

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering

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Abstract-A (build) target specifies the information that is needed to automatically build a software artifact. This paper focuses on underutilized targets-an important dependency problem that we identified at Google. An underutilized target is one with files not needed by some of its dependents. Underutilized targets result in less modular code, overly large artifacts, slow builds, and unnecessary build and test triggers. To mitigate these problems, programmers decompose underutilized targets into smaller targets. However, manually decomposing a target is tedious and error-prone. Although we prove that finding the best target decomposition is NP-hard, we introduce a greedy algorithm that proposes a decomposition through iterative unification of the strongly connected components of the target. Our tool found that 19,994 of 40,000 Java library targets at Google can be decomposed to at least two targets. The results show that our tool is (1) efficient because it analyzes a target in two minutes on average and (2) effective because for each of 1,010 targets, it would save at least 50% of the total execution time of the tests triggered by the target.

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Test suite parallelization in open-source projects: A study on its usage and impact

Cândido

Melo

d’Amorim

2017

2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

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I would not make this far without the help and support from some people that have followed me in this journey. I am a very fortunate person for having such wonderful parents. They have always trusted me and gave me the necessary support and freedom to chase my dreams. I dedicate this work to my family for being always present in my file, in the bad and good moments, and always will be my reference. Everything that I've accomplished so far would not be possible without their unconditional support, and I will never be able to express my gratitude into words. My interest for Software Engineering and research appeared while I was still an undergraduate student in Computer Science at UFCG, in Campina Grande. I had excellent professors but two of them had a huge influence in my career and encouraged me to apply in graduate school at UFPE. Thank you very much to professors Tiago Massoni and Rohit Gheyi for giving me opportunity to talk and mentoring me during my staying at UFCG. I am very grateful for the friends that I made at CIn-UFPE. In special, my academic brothers Luis Melo, Igor Simões, and Davino Junior-the last was a close friend from our group. You were my family while I was at UFPE. I am very thankful for the many funny moments and hangouts we had during that moment, not to mention the uncountable late hours in the lab helping each other. I wish all the success in the world for you guys because you are very passionate and hard workers. You deserve it! I am thankful for my advisor, Marcelo d'Amorim, for accepting me and walking beside me during this journey. Since the beginning, he was present and always encouraged me to give my best. Thank you very much to professor Leopoldo Teixeira for staying with me in the beginning while Marcelo was at Georgia Tech, and also for the many conversations followed by a tasty cup of coffee. I am also thankful to the all the members of GENTES for all the lessons and learning experiences from the many presentations. Thanks to FACEPE for funding my work. Finally, I am very grateful to my girlfriend for supporting and staying by my side during this moment of my life, to the friends from UFCG, to the friends from Lar dos Estudante, and to my friends from Cidade Viva for the funny moments. I am thankful to God for all opportunities and for everything that I have been living. To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

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Taking Control of Your Engineering Tools

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Improving the delivery cycle: A multiple-case study of the toolchains in Finnish software intensive enterprises

Improving the delivery cycle: A multiple-case study of the toolchains in Finnish software intensive enterprises

Automated Decomposition of Build Targets

Test suite parallelization in open-source projects: A study on its usage and impact

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