Mining motivated trends of usage of Haskell libraries

Conference Paper (2017)
Author(s)

Marc Juchli (External organisation)

Lars Krombeen (External organisation)

Shashank Rao (External organisation)

Anand Ashok Sawant (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Alberto Bacchelli (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Research Group
Software Engineering
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/WAPI.2017.6 Final published version
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Publication Year
2017
Language
English
Research Group
Software Engineering
Pages (from-to)
11-14
ISBN (electronic)
978-1-5386-2805-8
Event
WAPI 2017 (2017-05-23 - 2017-05-23), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Abstract

We propose an initial approach to minethe usage trends of libraries in Haskell, a popular functional programming language. We integrate it with a novel, initial method to automatically determine the reasons of clients for switching to different versions. Based onthese, we conduct a preliminary investigation of trends of usage in Haskelllibraries. Results suggest that trends are similar to those in the Javaecosystem and in line with Rogers' theory on the diffusion of innovation. Our results also provide indication on Haskell libraries being allby and large stable.