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Wed 11 Nov 2020 17:05 - 17:06 at Virtual room 1 - APIs

In this paper, we present the first exploratory study of deprecated Python library APIs to understand the status quo of API deprecation in the realm of Python libraries.
Specifically, we aim to comprehend how deprecated library APIs are declared and documented in practice by their maintainers, and how library users react to them.
By thoroughly looking into six reputed Python libraries and 1,200 GitHub projects, we experimentally observe that API deprecation is poorly handled by library contributors, which subsequently introduce difficulties for Python developers to resolve the usage of deprecated library APIs.
This empirical evidence suggests that our community should take immediate actions to appropriately handle the deprecation of Python library APIs.

Wed 11 Nov

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17:00 - 17:30
17:00
2m
Talk
Emerging Perspectives of Application Programming Interface Strategy: A Framework to Respond to Business Concerns
Journal First
Juho Lindman University of Gothenburg, Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, Imed Hammouda Mediterranean Institute of Technology, Eric Knauss Chalmers and University of Gothenburg
17:03
1m
Talk
Exempla Gratis (E.G.): Code Examples for Free
Industry Papers
Celeste Barnaby Facebook, Inc., Koushik Sen University of California at Berkeley, Tianyi Zhang Harvard University, USA, Elena Glassman Harvard University, Satish Chandra Facebook, USA
DOI
17:05
1m
Talk
Exploring How Deprecated Python Library APIs Are (Not) Handled
Research Papers
Jiawei Wang Monash University, Australia, Li Li Monash University, Australia, Kui Liu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, Haipeng Cai Washington State University, USA
DOI
17:07
1m
Talk
LibComp: An IntelliJ Plugin for Comparing Java Libraries
Tool Demos
Rehab El-Hajj University of Alberta, Canada, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
17:09
1m
Talk
Selecting Third-Party Libraries: The Practitioners’ Perspective
Research Papers
Enrique Larios Vargas Software Improvement Group, Netherlands, MaurĂ­cio Aniche Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Australia, Magiel Bruntink Software Improvement Group, Netherlands, Georgios Gousios Facebook & Delft University of Technology
DOI
17:11
19m
Talk
Conversations on APIs
Paper Presentations
Celeste Barnaby Facebook, Inc., Jiawei Wang Monash University, Australia, Juho Lindman University of Gothenburg, Rehab El-Hajj University of Alberta, Canada, Tam Nguyen Auburn University, USA, M: Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy