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'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 ❌ Commit validation ❌ Bot commits	❌ Publish documentation ❌ Issues or PRs management
Code quality	‎ ✅ Completed 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	‎ ⚠️ Still working on this level!
	✔️ Build environment configuration ❌ Package management	❌ Build files configuration	❌ Optimization
Artifacts	‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Code compilation ✔️ Dependency management of artifact	✔️ Build tasks, resources and configuration ✔️ Packaging ✔️ Generate source and metadata artifacts ✔️ Release tagging ✔️ Publish artifacts to a registry ❌ Source code version control	❌ Generate release notes ❌ Containerization ❌ Push container to remote

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 Package management; implemented by 36% of GitHub repositories
• Implement Build files configuration; implemented by 13% 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!