Towards Better Dependency Scope Settings in Maven Projects
Haolin Yang, Lin Chen, Yulu Cao, Yanhui Li, Yuming Zhou · 2023
The emergence of build automation tools with dependency management features has significantly impacted software development. However, in the configuration process, improper settings of some configuration items, such as the dependency scope setting, may cause severe problems in the development process. Improper setting of dependency scope may cause problems such as missing dependencies and redundant dependencies, and may even spread the problem to the downstream of the software ecosystem.