Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?

Samim Mirhosseini, Chris Parnin. Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?. In Grigore Rosu, Massimiliano Di Penta, Tien N. Nguyen, editors, Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2017, Urbana, IL, USA, October 30 - November 03, 2017. pages 84-94, ACM, 2017. [doi]

Abstract

Abstract is missing.