A Catalog of Unintended Software Dependencies in Multi-Lingual Systems at ASML
Multi-lingual software systems build on interconnected components that are implemented in different programming languages. The multi-lingual nature of such systems causes additional complexity, for instance, when developers aim to identify what components of a system use the same data. Organizations and developers typically aim to adhere to a specified system architecture to avoid certain dependencies between multi-lingual components. However, such dependencies may still be introduced and only resolved later on. Thus, we refer to them as unintended dependencies: dependencies that may exist, but are not wanted by the developers or organization. There has been little research on multi-lingual systems so far, and dependencies within such systems have not been studied explicitly. With this paper, we tackle this issue by contributing a catalog of unintended software dependencies in multi-lingual systems. We elicited it by interviewing 17 practitioners at ASML. We report eight types of unintended dependencies, their causes, the resulting problems, and how they can be resolved. Further, we connect our findings to research on software smells and dependencies in monolingual systems. Our contributions serve as recommendations for practitioners on how to deal with unintended dependencies, as supportive evidence for existing research, and as basis for new techniques for managing dependencies in (multi-lingual) systems.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Evolution 4Research Track / Journal-first Papers / Software Engineering in Practice at Glicínia Quartin Chair(s): Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University | ||
11:00 15mTalk | MUT: Human-in-the-Loop Unit Test Migration Research Track Yi Gao Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Tongtong Xu Huawei, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Streamlining Java Programming: Uncovering Well-Formed Idioms with IdioMine Research Track Yanming Yang Zhejiang University, Xing Hu Zhejiang University, Xin Xia Huawei Technologies, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Fine-grained, accurate and scalable source differencing Research Track | ||
11:45 15mTalk | A Catalog of Unintended Software Dependencies in Multi-Lingual Systems at ASML Software Engineering in Practice Tom Groot Eindhoven University of Technology & ASML, Lina Ochoa Eindhoven University of Technology, Bogdan Lazar ASML, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
12:00 7mTalk | Runtime Evolution of Bitcoin’s Consensus Rules Journal-first Papers Jakob Svennevik Notland Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Mariusz Nowostawski Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | ||
12:07 7mTalk | CfgNet: A Framework for Tracking Equality-Based Configuration Dependencies Across a Software Project Journal-first Papers Sebastian Simon Leipzig University, Nicolai Ruckel Secunet Security Networks AG, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University | ||
12:14 7mTalk | Hyperparameter Optimization for AST Differencing Journal-first Papers Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Jean-Rémy Falleri Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS, LaBRI, UMR5800, F-33400 Talence, France, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Matias Martinez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |