Cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), supported by technologies such as
Docker, have shaped how many software systems are built and deployed. Previous …

Nowadays, cloud computing is gaining tremendous attention to deliver information via the
internet. Virtualization plays a major role in cloud computing as it deploys multiple virtual …

Over the past decade, continuous software development has become a common place in
the field of software engineering. Containers like Docker are a lightweight solution that …

Many modern software applications are composed of several components (eg, a web
application is composed of a web server component and a database component). Each of …

With the growing use of DevOps tools and frameworks, there is an increased need for tools
and techniques that support more than code. The current state-of-the-art in static developer …

Automation has become a norm in software development practices, especially in CI/CD
practices. Recently, GitHub introduced GitHub Actions (GA) to provide automated workflows …

In software development, ad hoc solutions that are intentionally implemented by developers
are called self-admitted technical debt (SATD). Because the existence of SATD spreads …

Dockerfile plays an important role in the Docker-based software development process, but
many Dockerfile codes are infected with smells in practice. Understanding the occurrence of …

Docker is a tool for lightweight OS-level virtualization. Docker images are created by
performing a build, controlled by a source-level artifact called a Dockerfile. We studied …

Docker is becoming ubiquitous with containerization for develo** and deploying
applications. Previous studies have analyzed Dockerfiles that are used to create container …