DepOwl: Detecting Dependency Bugs to Prevent Compatibility Failures

2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI:10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00021

Zhouyang Jia, Shanshan Li, Tingting Yu, Chen Zeng, Erci Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Ji Wang, Xiangke Liao

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Applications depend on libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel. Libraries may have incompatible changes during evolving. As a result, applications will suffer from compatibility failures. There has been much research on addressing detecting incompatible changes in libraries, or helping applications co-evolve with the libraries. The existing solution helps the latest application version work well against the latest library version as an afterthought. However, end users have already been suffering from the failures and have to wait for new versions. In this paper, we propose DepOwl, a practical tool helping users prevent compatibility failures. The key idea is to avoid using incompatible versions from the very beginning. We evaluated DepOwl on 38 known compatibility failures from StackOverflow, and DepOwl can prevent 35 of them. We also evaluated DepOwl using the software repository shipped with Ubuntu-19.10. DepOwl detected 77 unknown dependency bugs, which may lead to compatibility failures.

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DepOwl:检测依赖错误以防止兼容性失败

应用程序依赖库来避免重复工作。库在发展过程中可能有不兼容的更改。因此，应用程序将遭受兼容性失败。对于如何检测库中的不兼容更改，或帮助应用程序与库共同发展，已经进行了很多研究。现有的解决方案可以帮助最新的应用程序版本更好地与最新的库版本进行比较。然而，终端用户已经饱受失败之苦，不得不等待新版本。在本文中，我们提出了depol，一个实用的工具，帮助用户防止兼容性失败。关键的想法是从一开始就避免使用不兼容的版本。我们对来自StackOverflow的38个已知兼容性失败进行了DepOwl评估，DepOwl可以阻止其中的35个。我们还使用Ubuntu-19.10附带的软件存储库对DepOwl进行了评估。DepOwl检测到77个未知的依赖项错误，这些错误可能导致兼容性失败。

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