一句话：提出并评估多种构建选择方法，通过跳过可通过的构建来降低持续集成计算成本。
持续集成（CI）在现代软件工程中广泛使用，但其计算成本高昂，Google 与 Mozilla 的 CI 系统开销可达数百万美元。为降低 CI 成本，该研究提出构建选择（build selection）策略：只执行结果可能失败的构建，跳过可通过的构建以节省资源。作者首先设计 SmartBuildSkip 自动跳过无收益构建，并与现有 CI 改进方法进行评估对比；随后提出以安全优先的 PreciseBuildSkip，并组合既有方法在相同及不同粒度上形成 HybridBuildSkip，以混合方式节省构建。最后计划开展人类研究，理解如何提升开发者对构建选择方法的信任。摘要未给出具体量化结果。
Continuous integration (CI) is a widely used practice in modern software engineering. Unfortunately, it is also an expensive practice — Google and Mozilla estimate their CI systems in millions of dollars. To reduce CI computation cost, I propose the strategy of build selection to selectively execute those builds whose outcomes are failing and skip those passing builds for cost-saving. In my research, I firstly designed SmartBuildSkip as my first build selection approach that can skip unfruitful builds in CI automatically. Next, I evaluated SmartBuildSkip with all CI-improving approaches for understanding the strength and weakness of existing approaches to recommend future technique design. Then I proposed PreciseBuildSkip as a build selection approach to maximize the safety of skipping builds in CI. I also combined existing approaches both within and across granularity to be applied as a new build selection approach — HybridBuildSkip to save builds in a hybrid way. Finally, I plan to propose a human study to understand how to increase developers' trust on build selection approaches.
DOI 原文 ·
@inproceedings{paperbot6366,
title = {Reducing cost in continuous integration with a collection of build selection approaches},
author = {Xianhao Jin},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1145/3468264.3473103}
}