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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 33 of 33 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2507.18062.

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This paper cites Continuous integration,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Continuous integration,

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This paper cites The hidden costs of automation: An empirical study on GitHub Actions workflow maintenance,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows The hidden costs of automation: An empirical study on GitHub Actions workflow maintenance,

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This paper cites On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub,

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This paper cites The GitHub de- velopment workflow automation ecosystems,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows The GitHub de- velopment workflow automation ecosystems,

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This paper cites CI/CD Configuration Practices in Open-Source Android Apps: An Empirical Study.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows CI/CD Configuration Practices in Open-Source Android Apps: An Empirical Study

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This paper cites actions/starter-workflows: Accelerating new GitHub Ac- tions workflows,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows actions/starter-workflows: Accelerating new GitHub Ac- tions workflows,

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This paper cites An explorative analysis of managed CI/CD usage among open- source C/C++ projects,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows An explorative analysis of managed CI/CD usage among open- source C/C++ projects,

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This paper cites Use and Misuse of Continuous Integration Features: An Empirical Study of Projects that (mis)use Travis CI,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Use and Misuse of Continuous Integration Features: An Empirical Study of Projects that (mis)use Travis CI,

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This paper cites Developers’ perception of GitHub Actions: A survey analysis,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Developers’ perception of GitHub Actions: A survey analysis,

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This paper cites Empirical analysis of CI/CD tools usage in GitHub Actions workflows,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Empirical analysis of CI/CD tools usage in GitHub Actions workflows,

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This paper cites Catching smells in the act: A GitHub Actions workflow investigation,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Catching smells in the act: A GitHub Actions workflow investigation,

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This paper cites Enhancing DevOps efficiency through AI-driven pre- dictive models for continuous integration and deployment pipelines,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Enhancing DevOps efficiency through AI-driven pre- dictive models for continuous integration and deployment pipelines,

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This paper cites An empirical study of the long duration of continuous integration builds,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows An empirical study of the long duration of continuous integration builds,

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This paper cites Studying the interplay between the durations and breakages of continuous integration builds,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Studying the interplay between the durations and breakages of continuous integration builds,

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This paper cites Studying the impact of noises in build breakage data,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Studying the impact of noises in build breakage data,

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This paper cites An empirical characterization of bad practices in contin- uous integration,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows An empirical characterization of bad practices in contin- uous integration,

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This paper cites Resource usage and optimization oppor- tunities in workflows of Github Actions,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Resource usage and optimization oppor- tunities in workflows of Github Actions,

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This paper cites Empirical Analysis on CI/CD Pipeline Evolution in Machine Learning Projects.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Empirical Analysis on CI/CD Pipeline Evolution in Machine Learning Projects

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This paper cites Travistorrent: Synthesizing Travis CI and GitHub for full-stack research on continuous integration,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Travistorrent: Synthesizing Travis CI and GitHub for full-stack research on continuous integration,

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This paper cites Using software metrics for predicting vulnerable code-components: A study on Java and Python open source projects,.

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Using software metrics for predicting vulnerable code-components: A study on Java and Python open source projects,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Getting started with GitHub Actions workflows,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Learning-based identification of coding best practices from software documentation,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Security misconfigurations in open source Kubernetes manifests: An empirical study,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Automatic security assess- ment of GitHub Actions workflows,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Developer mistakes in writing Android manifests: An empirical study of configuration errors,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Exploring complexity issues in junior developer code using static analysis and FCA,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows A metrics suite for static structure of large-scale software based on complex networks,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Pattern matching in python: Expanding the horizons of engineering applications,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows On a test of whether one of two random variables is stochastically larger than the other,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows Appropriate statistics for ordinal level data: Should we really be using t-test and Cohen’s d for evaluating group differences on the NSSE and other surveys,

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An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows On the use of GitHub Actions in software development repositories,

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Android Instrumentation Testing in Continuous Integration: Practices, Patterns, and Performance cites this paper.

Android Instrumentation Testing in Continuous Integration: Practices, Patterns, and Performance An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows

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A Vision for Context-Aware CI Adoption Decisions cites this paper.

A Vision for Context-Aware CI Adoption Decisions An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows

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Studying Developer Perceptions on the Potential of CI Recommendation Systems cites this paper.

Studying Developer Perceptions on the Potential of CI Recommendation Systems An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows

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