CI/CD survey

This is a quick survey to help us understand what our .NET customers are using for CI/CD.

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* 1. Which CI/CD systems do your projects use?

None

GitHub Actions

Azure pipelines

Appveyor

GitLab CI

Jenkins

TeamCity

Travis CI

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Overall, How satisfied are you with your current CI/CD solution?

Extremely
dissatisfied

Moderately
dissatisfied

Slightly
dissatisfied

Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied

Slightly
satisfied

Moderately
satisfied

Extremely
satisfied

N/A

Extremely
dissatisfied

Moderately
dissatisfied

Slightly
dissatisfied

Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied

Slightly
satisfied

Moderately
satisfied

Extremely
satisfied

N/A

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* 3. After a change is checked in, what actions does the CI system perform?

Build

Run tests

Sign binaries / manifests

Publish binaries to storage

Publish binaries to Nuget / other package manager

Create container images

Publish containers to a registry

Deploy app to a staging / test environment

Deploy app to production

Other (please specify)

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* 4. For the app you have been recently working on the most, how many projects (eg *.csproj) are in the solution or are involved?

2 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 30

31 - 99

100+

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* 5. How do you build the app on your developer machine?

Using Visual Studio (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Using msbuild, directory.build.props, target files etc from the cmd line

Using hand written cmd file(s)

Using hand written powershell script(s)

Using sh/bash scripts

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What is your familiarity with/usage of GitHub actions for doing CI/CD

I am not very familiar with GitHub actions

I have had a look, but am happy with my existing system

I tried GitHub actions, but it didn’t work out for some reason

I am using GitHub actions, but I am not very happy

I am using GitHub actions, and am very happy

N/A - I do not use GitHub

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* 7. What would you want the .NET & Visual Studio teams to do to improve your CI/CD experience?

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* 8. (Optional) If you would be willing to participate in future research investigating CI/CD product concepts and features, collaborating directly with our development and engineering teams, please include your email here:

Name:

Email:

Thank you,

The .NET & Visual Studio Teams