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学術雑誌論文 / Journal Article(1) |
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2024-03-06 |
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Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem |
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eng |
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Other |
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Software ecosystem |
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Other |
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dependency changes |
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Other |
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npm ecosystem |
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journal article |
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open access |
| 著者 |
Wattanakriengkrai, Supatsara
Wang, Dong
Kula, Raula Gaikovina
Treude, Christoph
Thongtanunam, Patanamon
石尾, 隆
松本, 健一
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内容記述タイプ |
Abstract |
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内容記述 |
The widespread adoption of third-party libraries for contemporary software development has led to the creation of large inter-dependency networks, where sustainability issues of a single library can have widespread network effects. Maintainers of these libraries are often overworked, relying on the contributions of volunteers to sustain these libraries. To understand these contributions, in this work, we leverage socio-technical techniques to introduce and formalise dependency-contribution congruence (DC congruence) at both ecosystem and library level, i.e., to understand the degree and origins of contributions congruent to dependency changes, analyze whether they contribute to library dormancy (i.e., a lack of activity), and investigate similarities between these congruent contributions compared to typical contributions. We conduct a large-scale empirical study to measure the DC congruence for the npm ecosystem using 1.7 million issues, 970 thousand pull requests (PRs), and over 5.3 million commits belonging to 107,242 npm libraries. We find that the most congruent contributions originate from contributors who can only submit (not commit) to both a client and a library. At the project level, we find that DC congruence shares an inverse relationship with the likelihood that a library becomes dormant. Specifically, a library is less likely to become dormant if the contributions are congruent with upgrading dependencies. Finally, by comparing the source code of contributions, we find statistical differences in the file path and added lines in the source code of congruent contributions when compared to typical contributions. Our work has implications to encourage dependency contributions, especially to support library maintainers in sustaining their projects. |
| 書誌情報 |
en : IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
巻 49,
号 4,
発行日 2022-11-28
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IEEE |
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EISSN |
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1939-3520 |
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DOI |
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https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2022.3225197 |
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9964443 |
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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IEEE is not the copyright holder of this material. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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