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ICSE 2022
Sun 8 - Fri 27 May 2022
Tue 10 May 2022 22:00 - 22:05 at ICSE room 1-even hours - Mining Software Repositories 4 Chair(s): Joshua Garcia
Fri 13 May 2022 13:00 - 13:05 at ICSE room 3-odd hours - Mining Software Repositories 7 Chair(s): Grace Lewis

Dependency management in modern software development poses many challenges for developers who wish to stay up to date with the latest features and fixes whilst ensuring backwards compatibility. Project maintainers have opted for varied, and sometimes conflicting, approaches for maintaining their dependencies. Opting for unsuitable approaches can introduce bugs and vulnerabilities into the project, introduce breaking changes, cause extraneous installations, and reduce dependency understandability, making it harder for others to contribute effectively. In this paper, we empirically examine evidence of recurring dependency management issues (dependency smells). We look at the commit data for a dataset of 1,146 active JavaScript repositories to catalog, quantify and understand dependency smells. Through a series of surveys with practitioners, we identify and quantify seven dependency smells with varying degrees of popularity and investigate why they are introduced throughout project history. Our findings indicate that dependency smells are prevalent in JavaScript projects with two or more distinct smells appearing in 80% of the projects, but they generally infect a minority of a projects dependencies. Our observations show that the number of dependency smells tend to increase over time. Practitioners agree that dependency smells bring about many problems including security threats, bugs, dependency breakage, runtime errors, and other maintenance issues. These smells are generally introduced as developers react to dependency misbehaviour and the shortcomings of the npm ecosystem.

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Tue 10 May

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22:00 - 23:00
Mining Software Repositories 4Technical Track / Journal-First Papers / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at ICSE room 1-even hours
Chair(s): Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine
22:00
5m
Talk
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects
Journal-First Papers
Abbas Javan Jafari Concordia University, Canada, Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada, Rabe Abdalkareem Carleton University, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University
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22:05
5m
Talk
Assisting Example-based API Misuse Detection via Complementary Artificial Examples
Journal-First Papers
Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montréal, Heng Li Polytechnique Montréal, Weiyi Shang Concordia University
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22:10
5m
Talk
Breaking Type Safety in Go: An Empirical Study on the Usage of the unsafe Package
Journal-First Papers
Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada, Suhaib Mujahid Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Carleton University, Emad Shihab Concordia University
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22:15
5m
Talk
Mining Idioms in the Wild
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Aishwarya Sivaraman University of California, Los Angeles, Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Andrew Scott Facebook, Tobi Akomolede Facebook, Satish Chandra Facebook
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22:20
5m
Talk
AutoTransform: Automated Code Transformation to Support Modern Code Review Process
Technical Track
Patanamon Thongtanunam University of Melbourne, Chanathip Pornprasit Monash University, Kla Tantithamthavorn Monash University
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22:25
5m
Talk
What Makes a Good Commit Message?Distinguished Paper Award
Technical Track
Yingchen Tian Beijing Institute of Technology, Yuxia Zhang Beijing Institute of Technology, Klaas-Jan Stol University College Cork, Lero, SINTEF, Lin Jiang Beijing Institute of Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology
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Fri 13 May

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13:00 - 14:00
Mining Software Repositories 7SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Journal-First Papers at ICSE room 3-odd hours
Chair(s): Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
13:00
5m
Talk
Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects
Journal-First Papers
Abbas Javan Jafari Concordia University, Canada, Diego Costa Concordia University, Canada, Rabe Abdalkareem Carleton University, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University
DOI Pre-print File Attached
13:05
5m
Talk
Mining Idioms in the Wild
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Aishwarya Sivaraman University of California, Los Angeles, Rui Abreu Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, Andrew Scott Facebook, Tobi Akomolede Facebook, Satish Chandra Facebook
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13:10
5m
Talk
The Impact of Flaky Tests on Historical Test Prioritization on Chrome
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
Emad Fallahzadeh Concordia University, Peter Rigby Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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Tue 10 May 2022 22:00 - 23:00 at ICSE room 1-even hours - Mining Software Repositories 4 Chair(s): Joshua Garcia
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Fri 13 May 2022 13:00 - 14:00 at ICSE room 3-odd hours - Mining Software Repositories 7 Chair(s): Grace Lewis
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