This repository represents a replication package for our analysis on Debian-based Docker images.
Title of the study: ``A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images"
Authors : Ahmed Zerouali (VUB, UMONS), Tom Mens (UMONS), Alexandre Decan (UMONS),
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona (URJC) and Gregorio Robles (URJC).
Journal: Empirical Software Engineering
This replication package requires Python 3.5+ to be installed, and all the dependencies listed in requirements.txt.
They can be automatically installed using pip install -r requirements.txt.
These experiments were executed on a Linux Ubuntu OS.
To obtain the analysis used in the paper, one should execute jupyter notebook at the root of this replication package, and open the notebook contained in notebooks.
This replication package contains three folders (i.e., scripts, notebooks and data).
- script: contains all scripts needed to pull images, inspect DockerHub API, extract Debian bugs, etc.
- data.zip: should be unzipped. The folder data inside contains all datasets needed for the analysis. To download this dataset, please use this zenodo repository: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3568160
- notebooks: contains notebooks where we prepare and analyze data. If you are more specifically interested in the empirical analysis you can find it in the folder
3 - Analysis of Debian-based Docker images. All data is already provided in data.zip
The data is under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license. The source code is under the GNU General Public License.