A Tale of Docker Build Failures: A Preliminary StudyMSR - Technical Paper
Docker containers have become the de-facto industry standard.Docker builds often break, and a large amount of efforts are put into troubleshooting broken builds. Prior studies have evaluated the rate at which builds in large organizations fail. However, little is known about the frequency and fix effort of failures that occur in Docker builds of open-source projects. This paper provides a first attempt to present a preliminary study on 857,086 Docker builds from 3,828 open-source projects hosted on GitHub. Using the Docker builds data, we measure the frequency of broken builds and report their fix time. Furthermore, we explore the evolution of Docker build failures across time. Our findings help to characterize and understand Docker build failures and motivate the need for collecting more empirical evidence.
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11:00 12mLive Q&A | A Tale of Docker Build Failures: A Preliminary StudyMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Yiwen Wu National University of Defense Technology, Yang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, China, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology, Huaimin Wang Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:12 12mLive Q&A | Using Others' Tests to Avoid Breaking UpdatesMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Suhaib Mujahid Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Shane McIntosh McGill University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:24 12mLive Q&A | A Dataset of DockerfilesMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Jordan Henkel University of Wisconsin–Madison, A: Christian Bird Microsoft Research, A: Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, A: Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Media Attached | ||
11:36 12mLive Q&A | Empirical Study of Restarted and Flaky Builds on Travis CIMSR - Technical Paper Technical Papers Thomas Durieux KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Rui Abreu Instituto Superior TĂ©cnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:48 12mLive Q&A | LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log AnalysisMSR - Data Showcase Data Showcase A: Carolin Brandt Delft University of Technology, A: Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, A: Andy Zaidman TU Delft, A: Moritz Beller Facebook, USA Pre-print Media Attached |