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

A platform-specific API is an API implemented for a particular platform (e.g., operating system), therefore, it may not work on other platforms than the target one. In this paper, we propose a first empirical study to assess the availability and usage of platform-specific APIs. We analyze the platform-specific APIs provided by the Python Standard Library and mine their usage in 100 popular systems. We find that 21% of the Python Standard Library APIs are platform-specific and that 15% of the modules contain at least one. The platforms with the most availability restrictions are WASI (43.69%), Emscripten (43.64%), Unix (6,76%), and Windows (2.12%). Moreover, we find that platform-specific APIs are largely used in Python. We detect over 19K API usages in all 100 projects, in both production (52.6%) and test code (47.4%). We conclude by discussing practical implications for practitioners and researchers.

Presentation - Availability and Usage of Platform-Specific APIs: A First Empirical Study (msr-platform-specific-api-presentation.pdf)5.9MiB

Mon 15 Apr

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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
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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 Media Attached 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