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API Beauty is in the eye of the Clients: 2.2 Million Maven Dependencies reveal the Spectrum of Client-API Usages
Nicolas Harrand, Amine Benelallam, César Soto-Valero +3
Hyrum's law states a common observation in the software industry: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable…
The Emergence of Software Diversity in Maven Central
César Soto-Valero, Amine Benelallam, Nicolas Harrand +2
Maven artifacts are immutable: an artifact that is uploaded on Maven Central cannot be removed nor modified. The only way for developers to upgrade their library is to release a ne…
The Maven Dependency Graph: a Temporal Graph-based Representation of Maven Central
Amine Benelallam, Nicolas Harrand, César Soto Valero +2
The Maven Central Repository provides an extraordinary source of data to understand complex architecture and evolution phenomena among Java applications. As of September 6, 2018, t…