A first look at CI/CD adoptions in open-source Android apps

Pei Liu; Xiaoyu Sun; Yanjie Zhao; Yonghui Liu; John Grundy; Li Li

doi:10.1145/3551349.3561341

A first look at CI/CD adoptions in open-source Android apps

Pei Liu, Xiaoyu Sun, Yanjie Zhao, Yonghui Liu, John Grundy, Li Li

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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Abstract

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have been demonstrated to be effective in facilitating software building, testing, and deployment. Many research studies have investigated and subsequently improved their working processes. Unfortunately, such research efforts have largely not touched on the usage of CI/CD in the development of Android apps. We fill this gap by conducting an exploratory study of CI/CD adoption in open-source Android apps. We start by collecting a set of 84,475 open-source Android apps from the most popular three online code hosting sites, namely Github, GitLab, and Bitbucket. We then look into those apps and find that (1) only around 10% of apps have leveraged CI/CD services, i.e., the majority of open-source Android apps are developed without accessing CI/CD services, (2) a small number of apps (291) has even adopted multiple CI/CD services, (3) nearly half of the apps adopted CI/CD services have not really used them, and (4) CI/CD services are useful to improve the popularity of projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Editors	Julia Rubin, Shahar Maoz
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394758
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3561341
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis 2022 - Ann Arbor, United States of America Duration: 10 Oct 2022 → 10 Oct 2022 Conference number: 5th https://a-mobile.github.io/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3551349 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis 2022
Abbreviated title	A-Mobile 2022
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Ann Arbor
Period	10/10/22 → 10/10/22
Internet address	https://a-mobile.github.io/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3551349 (Proceedings)

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Liu, P, Sun, X, Zhao, Y, Liu, Y, Grundy, J & Li, L 2022, A first look at CI/CD adoptions in open-source Android apps. in J Rubin & S Maoz (eds), Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering., 201, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis 2022, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 10/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3561341

A first look at CI/CD adoptions in open-source Android apps. / Liu, Pei; Sun, Xiaoyu; Zhao, Yanjie et al.
Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. ed. / Julia Rubin; Shahar Maoz. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022. 201.

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