BUMP: A Benchmark of Reproducible Breaking Dependency UpdatesShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Proceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024, p. 159-170Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Third-party dependency updates can cause a build to fail if the new dependency version introduces a change that is incompatible with the usage: this is called a breaking dependency update. Research on breaking dependency updates is active, with works on characterization, understanding, automatic repair of breaking updates, and other software engineering aspects. All such research projects require a benchmark of breaking updates that has the following properties: 1) it contains real-world breaking updates; 2) the breaking updates can be executed; 3) the benchmark provides stable scientific artifacts of breaking updates over time, a property we call 'reproducibility'. To the best of our knowledge, such a benchmark is missing. To address this problem, we present BUMP, a new benchmark that contains reproducible breaking dependency updates in the context of Java projects built with the Maven build system. BUMP contains 571 breaking dependency updates collected from 153 Java projects. BUMP ensures long-term reproducibility of dependency updates on different platforms, guaranteeing consistent build failures. We categorize the different causes of build breakage in BUMP, providing novel insights for future work on breaking update engineering. To our knowledge, BUMP is the first of its kind, providing hundreds of real-world breaking updates that have all been made reproducible.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. p. 159-170
Keywords [en]
Benchmark, Breaking dependency updates, Dependency engineering, Java, Maven, Reproducibility
National Category
Computer Sciences Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-351755DOI: 10.1109/SANER60148.2024.00024Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85199750992OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-351755DiVA, id: diva2:1888722
Conference
31st IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2024, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mar 12 2024 - Mar 15 2024
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Chains
Note
Part of ISBN 9798350330663
QC 20240823
2024-08-132024-08-132024-09-19Bibliographically approved