ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Fri 19 Apr 2024 14:15 - 14:30 at Amália Rodrigues - Analytics 5 Chair(s): Sridhar Chimalakonda

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages for software development due to its simplicity, readability, and versatility. As the Python ecosystem grows, developers face increasing challenges in avoiding module conflicts, which occur when different packages have the same namespace modules. Unfortunately, existing work has neither investigated the module conflict comprehensively nor provided tools to detect the conflict. Therefore, this paper systematically investigates the module conflict problem and its impact on the Python ecosystem. We propose a novel technique called InstSimulator, which leverages semantics and installation simulation to achieve accurate and efficient module extraction. Based on this, we implement a tool called ModuleGuard to detect module conflicts for the Python ecosystem.

For the study, we first collect 97 MC issues on GitHub, classify the characteristics and causes of these MC issues, summarize three different conflict patterns, and analyze their potential threats. Then we conduct a large-scale analysis of the whole PyPI ecosystem (4.2 million packages) and GitHub popular projects (3,711 projects) to detect each MC pattern and analyze their potential impact. We discover that module conflicts still impact numerous open-source software packages in PyPI. Our work reveals Python’s shortcomings in handling naming conflicts and provides a tool and guidelines for developers to detect conflicts.

Fri 19 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Analytics 5Research Track / Journal-first Papers at Amália Rodrigues
Chair(s): Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati
14:00
15m
Talk
An Exploratory Investigation of Log Anomalies in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Research Track
Dinghua Wang , Shuqing Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Guanping Xiao Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, Yulei Sui UNSW, Pinjia He Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
14:15
15m
Talk
ModuleGuard: Understanding and Detecting Module Conflicts in Python Ecosystem
Research Track
Ruofan Zhu Zhejiang University, Xingyu Wang Zhejiang University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University, Wenbo Shen Zhejiang University, China, Rui Chang Zhejiang University, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
14:30
15m
Talk
Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities Life Cycle in Golang Ecosystem
Research Track
Jinchang Hu , Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Sen Yang Academy of Military Science, Song Huang Army Engineering University of PLA, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University
14:45
15m
Talk
Fine-SE: Integrating Semantic Features and Expert Features for Software Effort Estimation
Research Track
Yue Li Nanjing University, Zhong Ren State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Software Institute, Nanjing University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Zhiqi Wang State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Software Institute, Nanjing University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Lanxin Yang Nanjing University, Liming Dong Nanjing University, He Zhang Nanjing University
15:00
7m
Talk
Concretization of Abstract Traffic Scene Specifications Using Metaheuristic Search
Journal-first Papers
Aren Babikian McGill University, Oszkár Semeráth Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University
15:07
7m
Talk
Technical leverage analysis in the Python ecosystem
Journal-first Papers
Ranindya Paramitha University of Trento, Fabio Massacci University of Trento; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
15:14
7m
Talk
Automated Mapping of Adaptive App GUIs from Phones to TVs
Journal-first Papers
Han Hu Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, ruiqi dong Swinburne University of Technology, John Grundy Monash University, Thai Minh Nguyen Monash University, huaxiao liu Jilin University, Chunyang Chen Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Link to publication DOI Pre-print
15:21
7m
Talk
Assessing the Early Bird Heuristic (for Predicting Project Quality)
Journal-first Papers
Shrikanth N C Oracle America Inc, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
Link to publication DOI Pre-print