Third-party libraries with rich functionalities facilitate the fast development of JavaScript
software, leading to the explosive growth of the NPM ecosystem. However, it also brings …

Software ecosystems play an important role in modern software development, providing an
open platform of reusable packages that speed up and facilitate development tasks …

Most of the code in typical Node. js applications comes from third-party libraries that consist
of a large number of interdependent modules. Because of the dynamic features of …

Nowadays, cloud computing is gaining tremendous attention to deliver information via the
internet. Virtualization plays a major role in cloud computing as it deploys multiple virtual …

Vulnerable dependencies are a known problem in today's free open-source software
ecosystems because FOSS libraries are highly interconnected, and developers do not …

In a software ecosystem, a dependency relationship enables a client package to reuse a
certain version of a provider package. Packages in a software ecosystem often release …

The reliance on vulnerable dependencies is a major threat to software systems.
Dependency vulnerabilities are common and remain undisclosed for years. However, once …

Along with the rapid development of cloud computing technology, containerization
technology has drawn much attention from both industry and academia. In this paper, we …

JavaScript is often rated as the most popular programming language for the development of
both client-side and server-side applications, and is currently used in almost all websites …

With the popularity of software ecosystems, the number of open source components (known
as packages) has grown rapidly. Identifying high-quality and well-maintained packages from …