API developers have been working hard to evolve APIs to provide more simple, powerful,
and robust API libraries. Although API evolution has been studied for multiple domains, such …

Context It has become common practice to build programs by using libraries. While the
benefits of reuse are well known, an often overlooked risk are system runtime failures due to …

Today, when constructing software systems, many developers build their systems on top of
frameworks. Eclipse is such a framework that has been in existence for over a decade. Like …

Current text based Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems have trouble with
refactorings. Refactorings result in global changes which lead to merge conflicts. A …

Nowadays, many companies design and develop their software systems as a set of loosely
coupled microservices that communicate via their Application Programming Interfaces …

As a mixed result of intensive dependency on third-party libraries, flexible mechanisms to
declare dependencies and increased number of modules in a project, different modules of a …

The reuse of third-party packages has become a common practice in contemporary software
development. Software dependencies are constantly evolving with newly added features …

When developing new software, third-party libraries are commonly used to reduce
implementation efforts. However, even these libraries undergo evolution activities to offer …

Recent research has shown that available tools for Modern Code Review (MCR) are still far
from meeting the current expectations of developers. The objective of this paper is to …

Applications typically communicate with each other, accessing and exposing data and
features by using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Even though API consumers …