Mining Trends of Library Usage
- IWPSE-Evol 2009
by
Yana Mileva, Valentin Dallmeier, Martin Burger, Andreas Zeller
WPSE-Evol '09: Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops, Pages 57-62, ACM, New York, NY, USA, August 2009.
ISBN: 9781605586786
Digital Library via DOI: 10.1145/1595808.1595821 - Local copy: Download as PDF file.
Abstract
A library is available in multiple versions. Which one should I use? Has it been widely adopted already? Was it a good decision to switch to the newest version? We have mined hundreds of open-source projects for their library dependencies, and determined global trends in library usage. This wisdom of the crowds can be helpful for developers when deciding when to use which version of a library-by helping them avoid pitfalls experienced by other developers, and by showing important emerging trends in library usage.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{mileva-iwpse-2009,
title = "Mining Trends of Library Usage",
author = "Yana Mileva and Valentin Dallmeier and Martin Burger and Andreas Zeller",
year = "2009",
month = aug,
address = "New York, NY, USA",
booktitle = "WPSE-Evol '09: Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of
software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops",
location = "Amsterdam, The Netherlands",
pages = "57--62",
publisher = "ACM",
ISBN = "9781605586786",
doi = "10.1145/1595808.1595821",
}