Replication Package for "Catching Smells in the Act: A GitHub Actions Workflow Investigation" Paper (SCAM 2024)

Welcome to our artifact! In here we provide additional information on how to retrace our steps performed during the research. We have split up our content into four sections based on the RQ's we have answered. Below you can find a quick summary of the contents of each folder, each folder also contains additional information regarding any data and scripts present.

• RQ1 + 2: Contains excel files with the commits we have analyzed and the scripts we have used to automate this process.
• RQ3: Contains our smell detector and evaluation of the detector
• RQ4: Contains the data on our contribution study

How to Cite the Paper

If you use this replication package in your research, please cite our paper using the following BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{khatami2024catching,
  title={Catching Smells in the Act: A GitHub Actions Workflow Investigation},
  author={Khatami, Ali and Willekens, C{\'e}dric and Zaidman, Andy},
  booktitle={24th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM). IEEE},
  year={2024}
}

Alternatively, you can use the following citation format:

Khatami, A., Willekens, C., & Zaidman, A. (2024). Catching Smells in the Act: A GitHub Actions Workflow Investigation. In 24th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM). IEEE.