Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

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

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 …

When APIs evolve, clients make corresponding changes to their applications to utilize new
or updated APIs. Despite the benefits of new or updated APIs, developers are often slow to …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents UMLDiff, an algorithm for automatically detecting structural changes
between the designs of subsequent versions of object-oriented software. It takes as input …

Third-party libraries play a key role in software development as they can relieve developers
of the heavy burden of re-implementing common functionalities. However, third-party …

Enabled by a rich ecosystem of Machine Learning (ML) libraries, programming using
learned models, ie, Software-2.0, has gained substantial adoption. However, we do not …