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Improving cloud-based continuous integration environments

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Alessio Gambi,

Zabolotnyi Rostyslav,

Schahram DustdarAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

Pages 797 - 798

Published: 16 May 2015 Publication History

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We propose a novel technique for improving the efficiency of cloud-based continuous integration development environments. Our technique identifies repetitive, expensive and time-consuming setup activities that are required to run integration and system tests in the cloud, and consolidates them into preconfigured testing virtual machines such that the overall costs of test execution are minimized. We create such testing machines by reconfiguring and opportunistically snapshotting the virtual machines already registered in the cloud.

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ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

May 2015

1058 pages

General Chair:
Antonia Bertolino
ISTI-CNR, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Gerardo Canfora
University of Sannio, Italy
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Sebastian Elbaum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Published: 16 May 2015

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May 16 - 24, 2015

Florence, Italy

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