In practice, it is common that a framework and its client programs evolve simultaneously.
Thus, developers of client programs may need to migrate their programs to the new release …

Libraries are commonly used to increase productivity. As most software systems, they evolve
over time and changes are required. However, this process may involve breaking …

With the rapid adoption of REpresentational State Transfer (REST), more software
organizations expose their applications as RESTful web APIs and client code developers …

Current text based software configuration management (SCM) systems have trouble with
refactorings. Refactorings result in global changes and lead to merge conflicts. A refactoring …

In programming practice, developers often need sample code in order to learn how to solve
a programming-related problem. For example, how to reuse an Application Programming …

Abstract Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a tremendous resource—that is,
when they are stable. Several studies have shown that this is unfortunately not the case. Of …

The long-standing aspiration for software reuse has made astonishing strides in the past few
years. Many modern software development ecosystems now come with rich sets of publicly …

Because of functionality evolution, or security and performance-related changes, some APIs
eventually become unnecessary in a software system and thus need to be cleaned to …

Specialized hardware accelerators continue to be a source of performance improvement.
However, such specialization comes at a programming price. The fundamental issue is that …

Modern software applications rely heavily on the usage of libraries, which provide reusable
functionality, to accelerate the development process. As libraries evolve and release new …