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08/16/2023
Where to Go Now? Finding Alternatives for Declining Packages in the npm Ecosystem
Software ecosystems (e.g., npm, PyPI) are the backbone of modern softwar...
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07/25/2023
An Empirical Study on Bugs Inside PyTorch: A Replication Study
Software systems are increasingly relying on deep learning components, d...
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05/29/2023
Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-based Development: An Empirical Study of 20 Large Open-Source Projects
Pull Requests (PRs) that are neither progressed nor resolved clutter the...
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05/25/2023
Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics
Managing project dependencies is a key maintenance issue in software dev...
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01/31/2023
Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research
Diversity and inclusion are necessary prerequisites for shaping technolo...
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12/05/2022
Can Ensembling Pre-processing Algorithms Lead to Better Machine Learning Fairness?
As machine learning (ML) systems get adopted in more critical areas, it ...
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08/11/2022
Achievement Unlocked: A Case Study on Gamifying DevOps Practices in Industry
Gamification is the use of game elements such as points, leaderboards, a...
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07/29/2022
Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM
Modern software systems are often built by leveraging code written by ot...
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06/21/2022
Open Source Software: An Approach to Controlling Usage and Risk in Application Ecosystems
The Open Source Software movement has been growing exponentially for a n...
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10/28/2021
On Wasted Contributions: Understanding the Dynamics of Contributor-Abandoned Pull Requests
Pull-based development has enabled numerous volunteers to contribute to ...
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07/28/2021
A Case Study on the Stability of Performance Tests for Serverless Applications
Context. While in serverless computing, application resource management ...
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07/21/2021
Towards Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline
Due to its increasing complexity, today's software systems are frequentl...
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12/04/2020
A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering
Chatbots are envisioned to dramatically change the future of Software En...
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10/27/2020
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects
Dependency management in modern software development poses many challeng...
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09/18/2020
On the Threat of npm Vulnerable Dependencies in Node.js Applications
Software vulnerabilities have a large negative impact on the software sy...
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06/17/2020