How to remove dependencies from large software projects with confidence

Dependency management is an important task in software maintenance. However, identifying and removing unused dependencies takes a lot of effort from developers as existing tools may discover many false positives which are challenging to distinguish. This paper proposes a decision framework to improve unused dependency detection. It is applied to...

Removing dependencies from large software projects: Are you really sure?

When developing and maintaining large software systems, a great deal of effort goes into dependency management. During the whole lifecycle of a software project, the set of dependencies keeps changing to accommodate the addition of new features or changes in the running environment. Package management tools are quite popular to automate this...