MSR 2024
Mon 15 - Tue 16 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
co-located with ICSE 2024

Software has become increasingly complex, with a typical application depending on tens or hundreds of packages. Finding compatible versions and build configurations of these packages is challenging. This paper presents a method to learn the likelihood of software build success, and techniques for leveraging this information to guide dependency solvers to better software configurations. We leverage the heavily parameterized package recipes from the Spack package manager to produce a training data set of builds, and we use Graph Neural Networks to learn whether a given package configuration will build successfully or not. We apply our tool to the U.S. Exascale Computing Project’s software stack. We demonstrate its effectiveness in predicting whether a given package will build successfully. We show that our technique can be used to improve the solutions generated by dependency solvers, reducing the need for developers to find working builds by trial and error.

Tue 16 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Process automation & DevOps and Tutorial ITechnical Papers / Tutorials at Almada Negreiros
Chair(s): Tom Mens University of Mons, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands
11:00
12m
Talk
Learning to Predict and Improve Build Successes in Package Ecosystems
Technical Papers
Harshitha Menon Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Daniel Nichols University of Maryland, College Park, Abhinav Bhatele University of Maryland, College Park, Todd Gamblin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:12
12m
Talk
The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds
Technical Papers
Ajiromola Kola-Olawuyi University of Waterloo, Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana University of Waterloo, Mei Nagappan University of Waterloo
11:24
12m
Talk
A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Approaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of YourBase
Technical Papers
Zhili Zeng University of Waterloo, Tao Xiao Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Hideaki Hata Shinshu University, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
Pre-print
11:45
45m
Talk
Cohort Studies for Mining Software Repositories
Tutorials
Nyyti Saarimäki Tampere University, Sira Vegas Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Valentina Lenarduzzi University of Oulu, Davide Taibi University of Oulu and Tampere University , Mikel Robredo University of Oulu