Publication: Understanding developers' needs on deprecation as a language feature
Understanding developers' needs on deprecation as a language feature
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Sawant, A. A., Aniche, M., van Deursen, A., & Bacchelli, A. (2018). Understanding developers’ needs on deprecation as a language feature. 561–571. https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180170
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Deprecation is a language feature that allows API producers to mark a feature as obsolete. We aim to gain a deep understanding of the needs of API producers and consumers alike regarding deprecation. To that end, we investigate why API producers deprecate features, whether they remove deprecated features, how they expect consumers to react, and what prompts an API consumer to react to deprecation. To achieve this goal we conduct semi-structured interviews with 17 third-party Java API producers and survey 170 Java developers. We observ
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Sawant, A. A., Aniche, M., van Deursen, A., & Bacchelli, A. (2018). Understanding developers’ needs on deprecation as a language feature. 561–571. https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180170
