Survival of Eclipse third-party plug-ins

J. Businge; A. Serebrenik; M.G.J. Brand, van den

doi:10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295

Survival of Eclipse third-party plug-ins

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Today numerous software systems are being developed on top of frameworks. In this study, we analyzed the survival of 467 Eclipse third-party plug-ins altogether having 1,447 versions. We classify these plug-ins into two categories: those that depend on only stable and supported Eclipse APIs and those that depend on at least one of the potentially unstable, discouraged and unsupported Eclipse non-APIs. Comparing the two categories of plug-ins, we observed that the plug-ins depending solely on APIs have a very high source compatibility success rate compared to those that depend on at least one of the non-APIs. However, we have also observed that recently released plug-ins that depend on non-APIs also have a very high forward source compatibility success rate. This high source compatibility success rate is due to the dependency structure of these plug-ins: recently released plug-ins that depend on non-APIs predominantly depend on old Eclipse non- APIs rather than on newly introduced ones. Finally, we showed that the majority of plug-ins hosted on SourceForge do not evolve beyond the first year of release.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, September 23-30, 2012)
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	368-377
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-2312-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	conference; 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012); 2012-09-23; 2012-09-30 - Duration: 23 Sept 2012 → 30 Sept 2012

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Conference	conference; 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012); 2012-09-23; 2012-09-30
Period	23/09/12 → 30/09/12
Other	28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012)

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Businge, J, Serebrenik, A & Brand, van den, MGJ 2012, Survival of Eclipse third-party plug-ins. in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, September 23-30, 2012). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway, pp. 368-377, conference; 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012); 2012-09-23; 2012-09-30, 23/09/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295

Survival of Eclipse third-party plug-ins. / Businge, J.; Serebrenik, A.; Brand, van den, M.G.J.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, September 23-30, 2012). Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012. p. 368-377.

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