Replication package for "An Empirical Study of Policy-as-Code Technologies: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance"

Replication package for "An Empirical Study of Policy-as-Code Technologies: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance"This item contains the code and data for an empirical study on Policy as Code (PaC).The following contents are included:Appendix.pdf: Informational tables that were omitted from the main paper due to space constraints. It includes:- An overview of all PaC tools identified in the Internet artefact analysis.- GitHub queries and validation techniques for the nine PaC tools considered in the paper.- Evolution of the dataset size throughout the data collection phases.Data Collection: Code supporting the data collection process.Dataset: Dataset used in the paper. Raw repositories are omitted due to space constraints but can be cloned using a script in "Data Collection".PQ1, PQ2, RQ1, RQ2, and RQ3: Scripts and derived data for the preliminary question (in PQ1), dataset exploration (in PQ2) and research questions.See individual archives for more documentation.