MSR 2020
Mon 29 - Tue 30 June 2020
co-located with ICSE 2020
Mon 29 Jun 2020 11:12 - 11:24 at MSR:Zoom - Build, CI, & Dependencies Chair(s): Raula Gaikovina Kula

The reuse of third-party packages has become a common practice in contemporary software development. Software dependencies are constantly evolving with newly added features and patches that fix bugs in older versions. However, updating dependencies could introduce new bugs or break backward compatibility. In this work, we propose a technique to detect breakage-inducing versions of third-party dependencies. The key insight behind our approach is to leverage the automated test suites of other projects that depend upon the same dependency to test newly released versions. We conjecture that this crowd-based approach will help to detect breakage-inducing versions because it broadens the set of realistic usage scenarios to which a package version has been exposed. To evaluate our conjecture, we perform an empirical study of 391,553 npm packages. We use the dependency network from these packages to identify candidate tests of third-party packages. Moreover, to evaluate our proposed technique, we mine the history of this dependency network to identify ten breakage-inducing versions. We find that our proposed technique can detect six of the ten studied breakage-inducing versions. Our findings can help developers to make more informed decisions when they update their dependencies.

Mon 29 Jun

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11:00 - 12:00
Build, CI, & DependenciesTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom
Chair(s): Raula Gaikovina Kula NAIST

Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack)

11:00
12m
Live Q&A
A Tale of Docker Build Failures: A Preliminary StudyMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Yiwen Wu National University of Defense Technology, Yang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, China, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology, Huaimin Wang
Pre-print Media Attached
11:12
12m
Live Q&A
Using Others' Tests to Avoid Breaking UpdatesMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Suhaib Mujahid Concordia University, Rabe Abdalkareem Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Emad Shihab Concordia University, Shane McIntosh McGill University
Pre-print Media Attached
11:24
12m
Live Q&A
A Dataset of DockerfilesMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
A: Jordan Henkel University of Wisconsin–Madison, A: Christian Bird Microsoft Research, A: Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft Research, A: Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Media Attached
11:36
12m
Live Q&A
Empirical Study of Restarted and Flaky Builds on Travis CIMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Thomas Durieux KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Hilton Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Rui Abreu Instituto Superior TĂ©cnico, U. Lisboa & INESC-ID
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:48
12m
Live Q&A
LogChunks: A Data Set for Build Log AnalysisMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
A: Carolin Brandt Delft University of Technology, A: Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology, A: Andy Zaidman TU Delft, A: Moritz Beller Facebook, USA
Pre-print Media Attached