Testing is an integral part of release engineering and continuous integration. In theory, a
failed test on a build indicates a problem that should be fixed and the build should not be …

Open source developers, particularly the elite developers who own the administrative
privileges for a project, maintain a diverse portfolio of contributing activities. They not only …

Gauging the success of software systems has been difficult in the past as there was no
uniform measure. With mobile Application (App) Stores, users rate each App according to a …

Our increasing reliance on mobile devices has led to the explosive development of millions
of mobile apps across multiple platforms that are used by millions of people around the …

Many software companies are shifting from the traditional multi-month release cycle to
shorter release cycles. For example, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox release new …

Release notes are an important source of information about a new software release. Such
notes contain information regarding what is new, changed, and/or got fixed in a release …

This thesis describes a study conducted at Centric and concerns the adoption of DevOps in
software product organization (SPOs), which are organizations that pro-duce software for …

There is growing interest in continuous delivery practices to enable rapid and reliable
deployment. While practices are important, we suggest architectural design decisions are …

Quality gates, steps required to ensure the reliability of code changes, are supposed to
increase the confidence stakeholders have in a release. In today's fast paced environments …

Mining software repositories (MSR) is an important area of research. An international
workshop on MSR has been established under the umbrella of international conference on …