MSR 2024
Mon 15 - Tue 16 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
co-located with ICSE 2024

As technical computing software, such as MATLAB and SciPy, has gained popularity, ecosystems of interdependent software solutions and communities have formed around these technologies. The development and maintenance of these technical computing ecosystems requires expertise in both software engineering and the underlying technical domain. The inherently interdisciplinary nature of these ecosystems presents unique challenges and opportunities that shape software development practices. Proof assistants, a type of technical computing software, aid users in the creation of formal proofs. In order to examine the influence of the underlying technical domain — mathematics — on the development of proof assistant ecosystems, we mined participant activity data from the code repositories and social channels of three popular proof assistants: Lean, Coq, Isabelle. Despite having a shared technical domain, we found little cross-pollination between contributors to the proof assistants. Additionally, we found that most long-term developers focused solely on technical work and did not participate in official social channels. We also found that proof assistant developers specialized into technical subfields. However, the proportion of specialists varied between ecosystems. We did not find evidence that these specialties contributed to fractures within the ecosystems. We discuss the implications of these results on the long-term health and sustainability of proof assistant ecosystems.

Mon 15 Apr

Displayed time zone: Lisbon change

11:00 - 12:30
Ecosystems, Reuse and APIs & TutorialsData and Tool Showcase Track / Technical Papers / Tutorials at Almada Negreiros
Chair(s): Mahmoud Alfadel University of Waterloo, Ayushi Rastogi University of Groningen, The Netherlands
11:00
12m
Talk
Thirty-Three Years of Mathematicians and Software Engineers: A Case Study of Domain Expertise and Participation in Proof Assistant Ecosystems
Technical Papers
Gwenyth Lincroft Northeastern University, Minsung Cho Northeastern University, Mahsa Bazzaz Northeastern University, Katherine Hough Northeastern University, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University
Pre-print Media Attached
11:12
12m
Talk
Boosting API Misuse Detection via Integrating API Constraints from Multiple Sources
Technical Papers
Can Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jingxuan Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yixuan Tang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhuhang Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tianyue Sun Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
11:24
6m
Talk
Availability and Usage of Platform-Specific APIs: A First Empirical Study
Technical Papers
Pre-print File Attached
11:30
4m
Talk
AndroLibZoo: A Reliable Dataset of Libraries Based on Software Dependency Analysis
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Jordan Samhi CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg
11:34
4m
Talk
Goblin: A Framework for Enriching and Querying the Maven Central Dependency Graph
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Damien Jaime Sorbonne Université - Lip6 - SAP, Joyce El Haddad Paris Dauphine-PSL Université, CNRS, LAMSADE, Pascal Poizat Université Paris Nanterre & LIP6
Pre-print File Attached
11:38
4m
Talk
Dataset: Copy-based Reuse in Open Source Software
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Mahmoud Jahanshahi Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee & Vilnius University
Pre-print
11:45
45m
Talk
Mining Our Way Back to Incremental Builds for DevOps Pipelines
Tutorials
Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo
Pre-print