Code and data for analyzing the diversity of libraries and versions in the Maven Dependency Graph (dataset downloaded from https://zenodo.org/record/1489120)

Requirements

• Neo4j to load the graph database
• graph algorithms for Neo4j 3.x exposed as Cypher procedures
• R version > 3.5.0 for data analysis and visualizations

Components

• Cypher queries for running graph based analysis and collecting data
• R notebooks for running the calculations, getting tables and figures

Citation

If you use this code, please cite the following research paper:

@inproceedings{SotoValero2019,
 title={The emergence of software diversity in maven central},
 author={Soto-Valero, C{\'e}sar and Benelallam, Amine and Harrand, Nicolas and Barais, Olivier and Baudry, Benoit},
 booktitle={2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)},
 pages={333--343},
 year={2019},
 organization={IEEE}
}