gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows
The GitHub social coding platform introduced GitHub Actions as a way to automate different aspects of collaborative software development through the use of workflow files. It is the most popular CI/CD and workflow automation tool for GitHub. To maintain workflow code over time, it is useful to rely on differencing tools to identify the changes made during successive commits. Unfortunately, existing code differencing tools are not able to correctly identify changes made to workflow files. We therefore implemented gawd, a syntactic differencing tool for GitHub Actions workflows. The tool is capable of reporting the addition, deletion, modification and move of syntactic components in workflow files, taking into account the specific syntax of workflows. gawd has been evaluated on manually classified sets of workflow changes taken from existing commits in 40 different GitHub repositories, and was able to successfully identify these changes. gawd is publicly released as an open source tool on https://github.com/pooya-rostami/gawd and distributed through PyPI.
Tue 16 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
14:00 - 15:30 | Process automation & DevOps IITechnical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Almada Negreiros Chair(s): Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo | ||
14:00 12mTalk | Options Matter: Documenting and Fixing Non-Reproducible Builds in Highly-Configurable Systems Technical Papers Georges Aaron RANDRIANAINA Université de Rennes 1, IRISA, Djamel Eddine Khelladi CNRS, IRISA, University of Rennes, Olivier Zendra Inria, Mathieu Acher University of Rennes, France / Inria, France / CNRS, France / IRISA, France | ||
14:12 12mTalk | How do Machine Learning Projects use Continuous Integration Practices? An Empirical Study on GitHub Actions Technical Papers João Helis Bernardo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte, Daniel Alencar Da Costa University of Otago, Sergio Queiroz de Medeiros Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte DOI Pre-print | ||
14:24 4mTalk | A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories Data and Tool Showcase Track Guillaume Cardoen University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS | ||
14:28 4mTalk | gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows Data and Tool Showcase Track Pooya Rostami Mazrae University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS, Tom Mens University of Mons | ||
14:32 4mTalk | RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history Data and Tool Showcase Track Natarajan Chidambaram University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons; F.R.S.-FNRS | ||
14:36 12mTalk | An Investigation of Patch Porting Practices of the Linux Kernel Ecosystem Technical Papers Xingyu Li UC Riverside, Zheng Zhang UC Riverside, Zhiyun Qian University of California at Riverside, USA, Trent Jaeger UC Riverside, Chengyu Song University of California at Riverside, USA | ||
14:48 4mTalk | BugsPHP: A dataset for Automated Program Repair in PHP Data and Tool Showcase Track K.D. Pramod University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.T.N. De Silva University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, W.U.K. Thabrew University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, Ridwan Salihin Shariffdeen National University of Singapore, Sandareka Wickramanayake University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Pre-print | ||