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MSR · 2021

On the Use of Dependabot Security Pull Requests

Mahmoud Alfadel*, Diego Elias Costa, Emad Shihab, Mouafak Mkhallalati

International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Abstract

We study how developers interact with Dependabot security pull requests, examining acceptance rates, time to merge, and factors that influence adoption.

security vulnerabilitiessoftware ecosystems