An empirical study of package management issues via Stack Overflow

• Main Authors: ISLAM, Syful, KULA, Raula, TREUDE, Christoph, CHINTHANET, Bodin, ISHIO, Takashi, MATSUMOTO, Kenichi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: package manager; end-user issues; stack overflow; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8821; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9824/viewcontent/ieice.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The package manager (PM) is crucial to most technology stacks, acting as a broker to ensure that a verified dependency package is correctly installed, configured, or removed from an application. Diversity in technology stacks has led to dozens of PMs with various features. While our recent study ind...