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

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

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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.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Titel	Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, September 23-30, 2012)
Plaats van productie	Piscataway
Uitgeverij	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pagina's	368-377
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-1-4673-2312-3
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295
Status	Gepubliceerd - 2012
Evenement	conference; 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012); 2012-09-23; 2012-09-30 - Duur: 23 sep. 2012 → 30 sep. 2012

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Congres	conference; 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012); 2012-09-23; 2012-09-30
Periode	23/09/12 → 30/09/12
Ander	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, blz. 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. blz. 368-377.

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