FSE · 2024
Dependency-Induced Waste in Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of Unused Dependencies in the npm Ecosystem
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh
Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (FSE)
Abstract
We measure how dependencies a project never uses still cost real time and resources in CI pipelines, examining the npm ecosystem.
continuous integrationsoftware ecosystems