Catching Up with State of the Art Continuous Integration Pipelines in Palladio — An Experience Report

Abstract

Palladio is a fairly large research project providing various software artifacts. The large amount of maintained projects makes Continuous Integration (CI) vital. However, CI is more useful if the source of a detected problem becomes clear. The earlier CI infrastructure did often not allow tracing back problems and even made adding new projects challenging. In 2018, we decided to completely rebuild the whole CI infrastructure and the organization of source code to catch up with the state of the art. Two years later, we can now report on our experience in migrating such large projects as well as on the benefits of spending the effort in this migration.