Title :
Trusting a library: A study of the latency to adopt the latest Maven release
Author :
Kula, Raula Gaikovina ; German, Daniel M. ; Ishio, Takashi ; Inoue, Katsuro
Author_Institution :
Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
Abstract :
With the popularity of open source library (re)use in both industrial and open source settings, `trust´ plays vital role in third-party library adoption. Trust involves the assumption of both functional and non-functional correctness. Even with the aid of dependency management build tools such as Maven and Gradle, research have still found a latency to trust the latest release of a library. In this paper, we investigate the trust of OSS libraries. Our study of 6,374 systems in Maven Super Repository suggests that 82% of systems are more trusting of adopting the latest library release to existing systems. We uncover the impact of maven on latent and trusted library adoptions.
Keywords :
public domain software; security of data; software libraries; trusted computing; Maven superrepository; OSS library; open source software library; trusted library adoption; Classification algorithms; Data mining; Java; Libraries; Market research; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
DOI :
10.1109/SANER.2015.7081869
