Third-party library reuse has become common practice in contemporary software
development, as it includes several benefits for developers. Library dependencies are …

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being adopted as components in software systems.
Creating and specializing DNNs from scratch has grown increasingly difficult as state-of-the …

Software ecosystems play an important role in modern software development, providing an
open platform of reusable packages that speed up and facilitate development tasks …

Nearly every popular programming language comes with one or more package managers.
The software packages distributed by such package managers form large software …

Several large scale studies on the Maven, NPM, and Android ecosystems point out that
many developers do not often update their vulnerable software libraries thus exposing the …

Software developers often include available open-source software packages into their
projects to minimize redundant effort. However, adding a package to a project can also …

Code reuse is traditionally seen as good practice. Recent trends have pushed the concept of
code reuse to an extreme, by using packages that implement simple and trivial tasks, which …

Deep learning becomes the driving force behind many contemporary technologies and has
been successfully applied in many fields. Through software dependencies, a multi-layer …

The semantic versioning (semver) policy is commonly accepted by open source package
management systems to inform whether new releases of software packages introduce …

Vulnerable dependencies are a major problem in modern software development. As
software projects depend on multiple external dependencies, developers struggle to …