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 …

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 …

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 …

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

In this paper, we present the first exploratory study of deprecated Python library APIs to
understand the status quo of API deprecation in the realm of Python libraries. Specifically …

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 …

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 …

Libraries play a significant role in software development as they provide reusable
functionality, which helps expedite the development process. As libraries evolve, they …