MSR 2023
Dates to be announced Melbourne, Australia
co-located with ICSE 2023
Tue 16 May 2023 12:26 - 12:32 at Meeting Room 110 - Software Libraries & Ecosystems Chair(s): Mehdi Keshani

Using libraries in applications have helped developers to reduce the costs of reinventing already existing code. However, an increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage has led developers to inevitably switch technologies, and also search for similar libraries implemented in the new technology. To assist with searching for these replacement libraries, maintainers have started to release their libraries to multiple ecosystems. Our goal is to explore the extent to which these libraries are intertwined between ecosystems. We perform a large-scale empirical study of 1.1 million libraries from five different software ecosystems, i.e., PyPI, CRAN, Maven, RubyGems, and NPM, to identify 4,146 GitHub repositories. As a starting point, insights from the study raise implications for library maintainers, users, contributors, and researchers into understanding how these different ecosystems are becoming more intertwined with each other.

Tue 16 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:50 - 12:35
Software Libraries & EcosystemsTechnical Papers / Industry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Meeting Room 110
Chair(s): Mehdi Keshani Delft University of Technology
11:50
12m
Talk
A Large Scale Analysis of Semantic Versioning in NPM
Technical Papers
Donald Pinckney Northeastern University, Federico Cassano Northeastern University, Arjun Guha Northeastern University and Roblox Research, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University
Pre-print
12:02
12m
Talk
Phylogenetic Analysis of Reticulate Software Evolution
Technical Papers
Akira Mori National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Masatomo Hashimoto Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
12:14
6m
Talk
PyMigBench: A Benchmark for Python Library Migration
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Mohayeminul Islam University of Alberta, Ajay Jha North Dakota State University, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta, Ildar Akhmetov University of Alberta
12:20
6m
Talk
Determining Open Source Project Boundaries
Industry Track
12:26
6m
Talk
Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
Technical Papers
Kanchanok Kannee Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Pre-print