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

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 …

Hunting binary code difference without source code (ie, binary diffing) has compelling
applications in software security. Due to the high variability of binary code, existing solutions …

It is a common practice for client-side web applications to build on various third-party
JavaScript libraries. Due to the lack of namespaces in JavaScript, these libraries all share …

Regression testing in very large software ecosystems is notoriously costly, requiring
computational resources that even large corporations struggle to cope with. Very large …

Software evolution is an important activity during a software development life cycle.
Understanding semantic differences between two versions of a software system is a crucial …

API developers evolve software libraries to fix bugs, add new features, or refactor code, but
the evolution can introduce API-breaking changes (eg, API renaming). To benefit from such …

API developers evolve software libraries to fix bugs, add new features, or refactor code. To
benefit from such library evolution, the programmers of client projects have to repetitively …

Software developers reuse the same libraries, frameworks, and algorithms, and they use
common programming idioms and best practices. Thus, when they evolve the code, they …

Over the past two decades, a rich ecosystem of open-source software has evolved. For
every type of application, there are a wide variety of alternatives. We observed that even if …