Abstract:As modern software extensively uses free open source packages as dependencies, developers have to regularly pull in new third-party code through frequent updates. However, without a proper review of every incoming change, vulnerable and even malicious code can sneak into the codebase through these dependencies. The goal of this study is to aid developers in securely accepting dependency updates by measuring if the code changes in an update have passed through a code review process. We implement DepDive, an upd… Show more
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