How do developers react to API deprecation?: the case of a smalltalk ecosystem

Romain Robbes, Mircea Lungu, David Röthlisberger

Full text DOI 10.1145/2393596.2393662 dblp

Abstract

When the Application Programming Interface (API) of a framework or library changes, its clients must be adapted. This change propagation---known as a ripple effect---is a problem that has garnered interest: several approaches have been proposed in the literature to react to these changes.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Robbes-al:FSE12,
  author    = {Romain Robbes and
               Mircea Lungu and
               David R{\"{o}}thlisberger},
  title     = {How do developers react to {API} deprecation?: the case of a smalltalk ecosystem},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {56},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2012},
}

How do developers react to API deprecation?: the case of a smalltalk ecosystem

Abstract

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