Measuring software library stability through historical version analysis

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 378-387

  Raemaekers, Steven ^a,b   Van Deursen, Arie ^b   Visser, Joost ^a  

^a Software Improvement Group   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

API Stability; API Usage; Software Reuse; Third party Libraries

Indexed keywords

API USAGE; BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY; DATA SETS; IMPLEMENTATION CHANGES; INTERFACE STABILITIES; JAVA SYSTEM; LIBRARY CODES; LIBRARY DEVELOPERS; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; LIBRARIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84873107858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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