Do developers update their library dependencies? An empirical study on the impact of security advisories on library migration

Third-party library reuse has become common practice in contemporary software development, as it includes several benefits for developers. Library dependencies are constantly evolving, with newly added features and patches that fix bugs in older versions. To take full advantage of third-party reuse,...

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Published in:	Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 384 - 417
Main Authors:	Kula, Raula Gaikovina, German, Daniel M., Ouni, Ali, Ishio, Takashi, Inoue, Katsuro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.02.2018
Subjects:	Compilers Computer Science Interpreters Programming Languages Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Software reuse Software maintenance Security vulnerabilities
ISSN:	1382-3256, 1573-7616
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