Characterizing outdateness with technical lag
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona · 2020
Background: Nowadays, many applications are built reusing a large number of components, retrieved from software collections such as npm (JavaScript) or PyPi (Python). Those components are built in their corresponding upstream repositories, where they are being developed. This architecture of reusing causes some constraints on how much outdated is an application when it is deployed in production environments.