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SE Radio 587: M. Scott Ford on Managing Dependency Freshness

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Maintaining Dependencies: Challenges and Solutions

The chapter discusses the common occurrence of companies and projects having out-of-date dependencies, highlighting the risks and vulnerabilities they pose. It explores the reasons why organizations struggle with dependency upgrades and introduces a tool called Dependable for patching packages and running test suites.

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