Software reuse is a common practice in modern software engineering to save time and energy while accelerating software delivery. Dependency managers like MAVEN offer a large ecosystem of reusable libraries that build the backbone of ...

• 67% of the artifacts violate semantic versioning at least once in their lifetime.

Ansible, a popular Infrastructure-as-Code platform, provides reusable collections of tasks called roles. Roles are often contributed by third parties, and like general-purpose libraries, they evolve. Therefore, new releases of roles ...

• Many role releases do not incur any structural change.
• Default variables and ...

In recent years, an application deployment method using Docker container has attracted attention by researchers. Docker containers are fast and lightweight, can improve the portability and reproducibility of applications, and are thus often used ...

Backward-incompatible interface changes are widespread in software libraries.Breaking changes have impact on client systems using these software libraries.Software developers do not follow proposed versioning guidelines. Systems that depend on third-...

For users of software libraries or public programming interfaces (APIs), backward compatibility is a desirable trait. Without compatibility, library users will face increased risk and cost when upgrading their dependencies. In this study, we investigate ...