Automation analysis

[simcha-vos-from-tu-delft]

I'm with the Software Engineering Research Group at the TU Delft, and I am investigating automations. I have looked at your repository and which GitHub workflows and Maven plugins you are using. I hope to provide you with some interesting insights about your repository! I'll give you a quick summary of what I found, and the automation tasks I recommend you to focus on next (:

Level of maturity	Basic	Intermediate	Advanced
Collaboration	‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Prepare or create documentation artifacts	✔️ Generate documentation from source code ❌ Bot commits	✔️ Issues or PRs management ❌ Publish documentation ❌ Commit validation
Code quality	‎ ⚠️ Still working on this level!
	✔️ Run tests ❌ Static code style analysis	✔️ Automatic code formatting ❌ Test coverage and validity ❌ Generate test reports ❌ Static code quality analysis	✔️ Verify packaging correctness ✔️ Vulnerability scans ✔️ Sign artifacts ❌ License checks
Development		‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Build files configuration	✔️ Build environment configuration	❌ Optimization
Artifacts		‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Code compilation ✔️ Dependency management of artifact	✔️ Build tasks, resources and configuration ✔️ Packaging ✔️ Release tagging ✔️ Publish artifacts to a registry	✔️ Generate source and metadata artifacts ❌ Generate release notes ❌ Source control management ❌ Containerization

And now? Next steps!

It is not always clear which automation tasks should be prioritized. It is however important to balance your automation efforts, as a uniform level of maturity is most productive. I'm here to help! Below is a list of tasks that you can work on to help level up your maturity across the automation domains:

• Implement Static code style analysis; implemented by 9% of GitHub repositories
• Implement Generate test reports; implemented by 10% of GitHub repositories

What do you think?

Do you think my analysis is correct, do these recommendations help you? Or have I missed something?

For my master's thesis I'm doing research into the use of automations in GitHub repositories. With my findings, I want to see if I can help out developers with what automations they could focus on. Do you want to help me out? Leaving a response is much appreciated!

If you have any other Java/Maven projects you'd like analyzed, you can send me the repositories and I can analyze them for you!

[metacosm]

Hi @simcha-vos-from-tu-delft, we will take a closer look soon and will let you know. Thank you for this effort.