How to break an API: Cost negotiation and community values in three software ecosystems

Change introduces conict into software ecosystems: breaking changes may ripple through the ecosystem and trigger rework for users of a package, but often developers can invest additional effort or accept opportunity costs to alleviate or delay downstream costs. We performed a multiple case study of...

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Main Authors: Bogart, Christopher, K\303\244stner, Christian, Herbsleb, James, FERDIAN THUNG
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3621
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4622/viewcontent/HowtoBreakAPI_2016_FSE.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English