Managing Software Supply Chains: Theory and Practice
Managing Software Supply Chains: Theory and Practice
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819617960 | 440 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 52 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819617960 | 440 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 52 MB
Open-source software supply chains wield significant influence in the software industry, drawing substantial interest from enterprises, researchers, and policymakers. Leveraging third-party libraries to build software applications is a common practice aimed at cost savings and software quality enhancement. However, heavy reliance on external libraries often leads to a state of “dependency hell”, marked by issues like incompatibilities, conflicting versions, bloated dependencies, and the inclusion of vulnerable library versions. Despite extensive research on software dependency management and the evolution of software supply chains, questions linger regarding the variances in dependency challenges across programming language ecosystems and how best to address the dependency hell phenomenon from an ecosystem-wide perspective.