SBOM Challenges for Developers: From Analysis of Stack Overflow Questions
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| author | Otoda, Wataru Kanda, Tetsuya Manabe, Yuki Inoue, Katsuro Higo, Yoshiki |
| author_facet | Otoda, Wataru Kanda, Tetsuya Manabe, Yuki Inoue, Katsuro Higo, Yoshiki |
| contents | Current software development takes advantage of many external libraries, but it entails security and copyright risks. While the use of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has been encouraged to cope with this problem, its adoption is still insufficient. In this research, we analyzed the challenges that developers faced in practicing SBOM use by examining questions about SBOM utilization on Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for developers. As a result, we found that (1) the proportion of resolved questions about SBOM use is 15.0% which is extremely low, (2) the number of new questions has increased steadily from 2020 to 2023, and (3) SBOM users have three major challenges on SBOM tools. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | SBOM Challenges for Developers: From Analysis of Stack Overflow Questions Otoda, Wataru Kanda, Tetsuya Manabe, Yuki Inoue, Katsuro Higo, Yoshiki Software Engineering Current software development takes advantage of many external libraries, but it entails security and copyright risks. While the use of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has been encouraged to cope with this problem, its adoption is still insufficient. In this research, we analyzed the challenges that developers faced in practicing SBOM use by examining questions about SBOM utilization on Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for developers. As a result, we found that (1) the proportion of resolved questions about SBOM use is 15.0% which is extremely low, (2) the number of new questions has increased steadily from 2020 to 2023, and (3) SBOM users have three major challenges on SBOM tools. |
| title | SBOM Challenges for Developers: From Analysis of Stack Overflow Questions |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03975 |