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[PDF] Exploring the Characteristics and Challenges in GitHub Actions and ...

Updated 9/16/2025
https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/84480/CSE%2024-27%20KM%20SS.pdf

Discussions and Stack Overflow. These posts address prevalent issues in such ecosystems, including security, breaking changes, obsolescence, and dependency. We empirically demonstrate the prevalence of these issues in GitHub Actions. Our thematic analysis on GitHub Discussion posts and Stack Overflow questions revealed that Security Vulner- ability is the most prevalent issue in the GHA ecosystem, followed … influences the reliance on Marketplace versus Local Actions. ... platform provides a Marketplace for sharing and reusing open-source Actions, there are still many repositories that prefer to maintain their own GHA locally within their repositories. The survey analysis conducted by the authors revealed some challenges GitHub users face using the Marketplace, where 7 out of 25 participants found it difficult

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