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Where to Go Now? Finding Alternatives for Declining Packages in the npm Ecosystem
Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem +1
Software ecosystems (e.g., npm, PyPI) are the backbone of modern software developments. Developers add new packages to ecosystems every day to solve new problems or provide alterna…
An Empirical Study on Bugs Inside PyTorch: A Replication Study
Sharon Chee Yin Ho, Vahid Majdinasab, Mohayeminul Islam +5
Software systems are increasingly relying on deep learning components, due to their remarkable capability of identifying complex data patterns and powering intelligent behaviour. A…
Understanding the Helpfulness of Stale Bot for Pull-based Development: An Empirical Study of 20 Large Open-Source Projects
SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Diego Elias Costa, Suhaib Mujahid +1
Pull Requests (PRs) that are neither progressed nor resolved clutter the list of PRs, making it difficult for the maintainers to manage and prioritize unresolved PRs. To automatica…
Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics
Abbas Javan Jafari, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab +1
Managing project dependencies is a key maintenance issue in software development. Developers need to choose an update strategy that allows them to receive important updates and fix…
Diversity Awareness in Software Engineering Participant Research
Riya Dutta, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab +1
Diversity and inclusion are necessary prerequisites for shaping technological innovation that benefits society as a whole. A common indicator of diversity consideration is the repr…
Not All Dependencies are Equal: An Empirical Study on Production Dependencies in NPM
Jasmine Latendresse, Suhaib Mujahid, Diego Elias Costa +1
Modern software systems are often built by leveraging code written by others in the form of libraries and packages to accelerate their development. While there are many benefits to…