Análise da utilização da integração contínua no ambiente de desenvolvimento do NPI

Abstract

NPI has many projects, and its members are mostly students from the UFC Quixadá Campus, which indicates the inexperience of the teams in their development environment. With this in mind, NPI offers the support of teachers and supervisors to guide these students in their activities with organizing an actual software factory development environment. To help development and automate most of its processes, NPI has added Continuous Integration to projects, which comes as a helper on task assessment issues and as a monitor of the quality of products developed by NPI. However, it was not evaluated whether the addition of this tool really contributed or harmed the team, it is only known that, according to the literature, the contribution is witnessed, but it has not yet been proven effective. In this context, aiming to verify if the tool added in this environment described above brought any benefits or difficulties, this paper proposes an evaluation of the impact of Continuous Integration in the development environment of NPI. The work consists to evaluate the participants' experience and adaptation with the addition of the tool, analyzing repository data to verify changes in activity submission frequency, problem solving and team productivity indicators, comparing a period before and after to addition of the Continuous Integration, so that it can finally indicate the actual impact obtained. To this end, interviews were conducted with students and supervisors to identify experience and adaptation, and inspections were conducted on project repositories adhering to the IC, to verify data from the repositories explained above. From the results obtained, it was possible to indicate a positive impact on the adoption of the tool in the NPI development environment.