Mining motivated trends of usage of Haskell libraries

Conference paper (2017)

Authors

Marc Juchli External organisation
Lars Krombeen External organisation
Shashank Rao External organisation
A.A. Sawant Software Engineering - EEMCS
A. Bacchelli Software Engineering - EEMCS
Research Group
Software Engineering (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Mining software repositories Api usage Version popularity
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Published Date

30-06-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Software Engineering

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.