@inproceedings{40de098342a94efc96115786a56cfab2,
title = "Exploring how deprecated Python library APIs are (not) handled",
abstract = "In this paper, we present the first exploratory study of deprecated Python library APIs to understand the status quo of API deprecation in the realm of Python libraries. Specifically, we aim to comprehend how deprecated library APIs are declared and documented in practice by their maintainers, and how library users react to them. By thoroughly looking into six reputed Python libraries and 1,200 GitHub projects, we experimentally observe that API deprecation is poorly handled by library contributors, which subsequently introduce difficulties for Python developers to resolve the usage of deprecated library APIs. This empirical evidence suggests that our community should take immediate actions to appropriately handle the deprecation of Python library APIs.",
keywords = "Deprecated API, Deprecation, Evolution, Python library",
author = "Jiawei Wang and Li Li and Kui Liu and Haipeng Cai",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.; 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2020 ; Conference date: 08-11-2020 Through 13-11-2020",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1145/3368089.3409735",
language = "英语",
series = "ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "233--244",
editor = "Prem Devanbu and Myra Cohen and Thomas Zimmermann",
booktitle = "ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering",
}