Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets ModulesACM SIGSOFT Distinguished PaperTechnical Track
Sat 29 May 2021 00:10 - 00:30 at Blended Sessions Room 1 - 4.2.1. API: Evolution and Maintenance #2
Ever since its first release in 2009, the Go programming language (Golang) has been well received by software communities. A major reason for its success is the powerful support of library-based development, where a Golang project can be conveniently built on top of other projects by referencing them as libraries. As Golang evolves, it recommends the use of a new library-referencing mode to overcome the limitations of the original one. While these two library modes are incompatible, both are supported by the Golang ecosystem. The heterogeneous use of library-referencing modes across Golang projects has caused numerous dependency management (DM) issues, incurring reference inconsistencies and even build failures. Motivated by the problem, we conducted an empirical study to characterize the DM issues, understand their root causes, and examine their fixing solutions. Based on our findings, we developed Hero, an automated technique to detect DM issues and suggest proper fixing solutions. We applied Hero to 19,000 popular Golang projects. The results showed that Hero achieved a high detection rate of 98.5% on a DM issue benchmark and found 2,422 new DM issues in 2,356 popular Golang projects. We reported 280 issues, among which 181 (64.6%) issues have been confirmed, and 160 of them (88.4%) have been fixed or are under fixing. Almost all the fixes have adopted our fixing suggestions.
Fri 28 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
11:30 - 12:30 | 4.2.1. API: Evolution and Maintenance #2Technical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at Blended Sessions Room 1 +12h Chair(s): Giuseppe Scanniello University of Basilicata | ||
11:30 20mPaper | Identifying and Characterizing Silently-Evolved Methods in the Android APISEIP SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Pei Liu Monash University, Li Li Monash University, Yichun Yan University of Minnesota, Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, John Grundy Monash University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:50 20mPaper | DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility FailuresTechnical Track Technical Track Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Tingting Yu University of Kentucky, Chen Zeng National University of Defense Technology, Erci Xu National University of Defense Technology, Xiaodong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Ji Wang National University of Defense Technology, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology, China Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:10 20mPaper | Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets ModulesACM SIGSOFT Distinguished PaperTechnical Track Technical Track Ying Wang Northeastern University, China, Liang Qiao Northeastern University, China, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, China, Shing-Chi Cheung Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Na Meng Virginia Tech, USA, Hai Yu Northeastern University, China, Zhiliang Zhu Northeastern University, China Pre-print Media Attached | ||
23:30 - 00:30 | 4.2.1. API: Evolution and Maintenance #2Technical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice at Blended Sessions Room 1 | ||
23:30 20mPaper | Identifying and Characterizing Silently-Evolved Methods in the Android APISEIP SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice Pei Liu Monash University, Li Li Monash University, Yichun Yan University of Minnesota, Mattia Fazzini University of Minnesota, John Grundy Monash University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
23:50 20mPaper | DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility FailuresTechnical Track Technical Track Zhouyang Jia National University of Defense Technology, Shanshan Li National University of Defense Technology, Tingting Yu University of Kentucky, Chen Zeng National University of Defense Technology, Erci Xu National University of Defense Technology, Xiaodong Liu National University of Defense Technology, Ji Wang National University of Defense Technology, Liao Xiangke National University of Defense Technology, China Pre-print Media Attached | ||
00:10 20mPaper | Hero: On the Chaos When PATH Meets ModulesACM SIGSOFT Distinguished PaperTechnical Track Technical Track Ying Wang Northeastern University, China, Liang Qiao Northeastern University, China, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, China, Shing-Chi Cheung Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Na Meng Virginia Tech, USA, Hai Yu Northeastern University, China, Zhiliang Zhu Northeastern University, China Pre-print Media Attached | ||