Preprint
Aug 2026
Update from Hell: Can Coding Agents Survive Hidden Breakage in Dependency Upgrades?
Modern software systems rely heavily on third-party dependencies, but upgrading those dependencies remains a costly maintenance activity. Dependency upgrades do not always preserve the function signatures, type systems, APIs, or runtime semantics assumed by existing code. Consequently, developers often need to perform...
Zi-Jian Luo, Runzhi He, Pengfei Gao et al.
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