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SoHeal 2021
Sat 29 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Sat 29 May 2021 14:40 - 14:55 at SoHeal Room - First Session Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali

A package manager (PM) is crucial to most technology stacks, acting as a broker to ensure that a verified dependency package is correctly installed, configured, or removed from an application. Diversity in technology stacks has led to dozens of PMs with various features. While recent studies have shown that developers struggle to migrate their dependencies, the common assumption is that PMs are used without any issue. In this study, we explore sixteen PMs to understand whether their features correlate with the experience of their users. By studying experience through the questions that developers ask on the question-and-answer site Stack Overflow, we find that developer questions are grouped into three themes (i.e., PM management, Input-Output, and Package Usage). Our analysis results indicate that specific features are correlated with the user experience. Our work lays out future directions to investigate the trade-offs involved in designing the ideal PM.

Sat 29 May

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14:40 - 15:55
First SessionSoHeal 2021 at SoHeal Room
Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Presentations will be pre-recorded (15mn).

Pitches and Q&A will be organized at the end of the session, in sequence for each presentation

  • Pitches by authors (3 min) will include a summary or most important results, and provocative questions to the audience.

  • Q&A (7mn).

14:40
15m
Talk
Choice Matters: Contrasting Package Manager User Experience
SoHeal 2021
Raula Gaikovina Kula NAIST, Syful Islam Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bodin Chinthanet Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Takashi Ishio Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Media Attached
14:55
15m
Research paper
A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions
SoHeal 2021
Damien Legay University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons
Pre-print Media Attached
15:10
15m
Research paper
Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity?
SoHeal 2021
Thorn Jansen Eindhoven University of Technology, Zeinab Abou Khalil University of Mons and University of Lille, Eleni Constantinou Eindhoven University of Technology, Tom Mens University of Mons
Pre-print Media Attached
15:25
30m
Live Q&A
Pitches and Discussion
SoHeal 2021

Media Attached

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Sat 29 May 2021 14:40 - 15:55 at SoHeal Room - First Session Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali
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