How Do Infrastructure-as-Code Practitioners Update Their Dependencies? An Empirical Study on Terraform Module Updates

Keyphrases

• Infrastructure as Code 100%
• Terraform 100%
• Module Dependencies 50%
• Motivation 41%
• Code Module 25%
• Security Vulnerabilities 16%
• Technical Lag 16%
• Tool Support 8%
• Popular 8%
• Code Reuse 8%
• Open Source Project 8%
• Code Changes 8%
• Software Project 8%
• Code Quality 8%
• Practitioner Needs 8%
• Vulnerability Mitigation 8%
• Update Frequency 8%
• Software Infrastructure 8%
• Code Modularity 8%
• Machine Readable Codes 8%
• Lag Phenomena 8%

Computer Science

• Module Dependency 100%
• Code Module 50%
• Security Vulnerability 33%
• Code Reuse 16%
• Open Source Project 16%
• Software Project 16%
• Software Infrastructure 16%