Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

Frameworks and libraries offer reusable and customizable functionality through Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs). Correctly using large and sophisticated APIs can represent a …

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

Refactoring detection algorithms have been crucial to a variety of applications:(i) empirical
studies about the evolution of code, tests, and faults,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) …

Third-party libraries play a key role in software development as they can relieve developers
of the heavy burden of re-implementing common functionalities. However, third-party …

Developers neglect to update legacy software dependencies, resulting in buggy and
insecure software. One explanation for this neglect is the difficulty of constantly checking for …

Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using
learned models, ie, Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not …

The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

Knowing which types of refactoring occurred between two program versions can help
programmers better understand code changes. Our survey of refactoring identification …

Dependency management bots automatically open pull requests to update software
dependencies on behalf of developers. Early research shows that developers are …