A core goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make small incremental changes to software projects. Those changes should then be integrated frequently into a mainline repository or branch. This paper presents an empirical study investigating if developers adjust their commit activity towards this goal after projects start using CI. To this end, we analyzed the commit and merge activity in 93 ...

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Seth A. Marvel, Travis Martin, Charles R. Doering, 3 David Lusseau, and M. E. J. Newman Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. ...