Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in
the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those …

Deep learning applications become increasingly popular in important domains such as self-
driving systems and facial identity systems. Defective deep learning applications may lead to …

Refactoring detection algorithms have been crucial to a variety of applications:(i) empirical
studies about the evolution of code, tests, and faults,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) …

Change introduces conflict into software ecosystems: breaking changes may ripple through
the ecosystem and trigger rework for users of a package, but often developers can invest …

Third-party libraries in Android apps have repeatedly been shown to be hazards to the
users' privacy and an amplification of their host apps' attack surface. A particularly …

During the recent years, the market of mobile software applications (apps) has maintained
an impressive upward trajectory. Many small and large software development companies …

Developers neglect to update legacy software dependencies, resulting in buggy and
insecure software. One explanation for this neglect is the difficulty of constantly checking for …

The mobile apps market is one of the fastest growing areas in the information technology. In
digging their market share, developers must pay attention to building robust and reliable …

Frameworks and libraries offer reusable and customizable functionality through Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs). Correctly using large and sophisticated APIs can represent a …