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

Background Many aspects of our lives are now digitized and connected to the internet. As a
result, individuals are now creating and collecting more personal data than ever before. This …

Open source software projects often rely on package management systems that help
projects discover, incorporate, and maintain dependencies on other packages, maintained …

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

To enhance the compatibility in the version control of Java Third-party Libraries (TPLs),
Maven adopts Semantic Versioning (SemVer) to standardize the underlying meaning of …

GraphQL is a novel query language proposed by Facebook to implement Web-based APIs.
In this paper, we present a practical study on migrating API clients to this new technology …

Just like any software, libraries evolve to incorporate new features, bug fixes, security
patches, and refactorings. However, when a library evolves, it may break the contract …

Robotics simulation plays an important role in the design, development, and verification and
validation of robotics systems. Simulation represents a potentially cheaper, safer, and more …

Modern software systems are increasingly relying on dependencies from the ecosystem. A
recent estimation shows that around 35% of an open-source project's code come from its …

Many modern software systems are built on top of existing packages (modules, components,
libraries). The increasing number and complexity of dependencies has given rise to …