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Mining for Software Library Usage Patterns Within an Ecosystem: Are We There Yet?

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The use of software libraries is important in a software development ecosystem, in which the systems are interacting and share several usages of Application Programming Interfaces. The patterns of library usages have been shown to be useful in not only improving the productivity of the coding process via software reuse but also improving the code quality. In this chapter, we systematically evaluate the different approaches in library usage pattern mining. We also provide lessons learned from the history of those approaches and discuss the potential future directions in the usage pattern mining area.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

    Tien N. Nguyen

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    Coen De Roover

  3. PReCISE research center, Namur Digital Institute (NaDI), University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

    Anthony Cleve

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Nguyen, T.N. (2023). Mining for Software Library Usage Patterns Within an Ecosystem: Are We There Yet?. In: Mens, T., De Roover, C., Cleve, A. (eds) Software Ecosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36060-2_4

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