A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories

Cardoen, Guillaume; Mens, Tom; Decan, Alexandre

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A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories

Cardoen, Guillaume; Mens, Tom; Decan, Alexandre

2024 • In 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)

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Keywords :

software repository mining; GitHub Actions; software evolution; workflow automation; empirical software engineering

Abstract :

[en] GitHub Actions is the de facto workflow automation tool for GitHub repositories. Its popularity has increased dramatically over the recent years, opening up opportunities for empirical studies related to its usage. To enable such studies, we implemented gigawork, an open source tool for extracting the commit histories of changes to workflow files in GitHub repositories. Using this tool we collected and publicly released a dataset of 160K+ commit histories of workflow files in 32K+ public GitHub repositories, covering 1.5M+ workflow file versions. In order to facilitate its use by other researchers, the dataset includes relevant metadata related to workflow file changes in each commit. gigawork is publicly released on PyPi. Its associated dataset can be found on Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10259013).

Disciplines :

Computer science

DOI :

10.1145/3643991.3644867

Author, co-author :

Cardoen, Guillaume ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Science > Service d'Informatique théorique

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service de Génie Logiciel

Decan, Alexandre ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté des Sciences > Service de Génie Logiciel

Language :

English

Title :

A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories

Publication date :

15 April 2024

Event name :

21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Event organizer :

ACM

Event place :

Lisbon, Portugal

Event date :

15-16 April 2024

Event number :

Audience :

International

Main work title :

21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)

Publisher :

ACM

ISBN/EAN :

979-8-4007-0587

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://github.com/cardoeng/gigawork
https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644867

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

Research institute :

R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

Funding number :

T.0149.22; F.4515.23; J.0147.24

Funding text :

This work is supported by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS under grant numbers T.0149.22, F.4515.23 and J.0147.24.

Data Set :

A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories

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