On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices: An Empirical Study

This repository contains all the artifacts and data related to the On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices: An Empirical Study. The folder structure and their entailments are as follows: data: Contains .sql files with the dataset collected during the study, which includes all project information retrieved from GitHub. A README.txt file inside the folder explains how to restore the dataset. document_analysis: Includes the analysis files for specific research questions: RQ1 subdirectory: Contains the pull request (PR) comments dataset and an Excel file with the analysis data for Research Question 1. RQ3 subdirectory: Contains documentation from CI services and third-party tools analyzed in Research Question 3, along with an Excel file summarizing the analysis data. scripts: Provides the R scripts used for data analysis and chart generation. survey: Includes the collected survey responses and a template of the survey sent to developers. The total size of the repository when decompressed is approximately 8.14 GB.