ASE 2020★ Distinguished Paper

Team Discussions and Dynamics During DevOps Tool Adoptions in OSS Projects

Abstract

In Open Source Software (OSS) projects, pre-built tools dominate DevOps-oriented pipelines. In practice, a multitude of configuration management, cloud-based continuous integration, and automated deployment tools exist, and often more than one for each task. Tools are adopted (and given up) by OSS projects regularly. Prior work has shown that some tool adoptions are preceded by discussions, and that tool adoptions can result in benefits to the project. But important questions remain: how do teams decide to adopt a tool? What is discussed before the adoption and for how long? And, what team characteristics are determinant of the adoption?

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Yin-Filkov:ASE20,
  author    = {Likang Yin and
               Vladimir Filkov},
  title     = {Team Discussions and Dynamics During {DevOps} Tool Adoptions in {OSS} Projects},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {697--708},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year      = {2020},
}

Team Discussions and Dynamics During DevOps Tool Adoptions in OSS Projects

Abstract

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