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To react, or not to react: Patterns of reaction to API deprecation

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2020
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Sawant, A. A., Robbes, R., & Bacchelli, A. (2020). To react, or not to react: Patterns of reaction to API deprecation. Empirical Software Engineering, 24(6), 3824–3870. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09713-w

Abstract

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Abstract

Application Programming Interfaces (API) provide reusable functionality to aid developers in the development process. The features provided by these APIs might change over time as the API evolves. To allow API consumers to peacefully transition from older obsolete features to new features, API producers make use of the deprecation mechanism that allows them to indicate to the consumer that a feature should no longer be used. The Java language designers noticed that no one was taking these deprecation warnings seriously and continued u

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  • Sawant, Anand Ashok
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  • Robbes, Romain
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  • Bacchelli, Alberto
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24

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6

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3824

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3870

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2020

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2021-01-27

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1382-3256

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merlin-id:20241

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Sawant, A. A., Robbes, R., & Bacchelli, A. (2020). To react, or not to react: Patterns of reaction to API deprecation. Empirical Software Engineering, 24(6), 3824–3870. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09713-w

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