Looking at your other responses, "software supply chain" may still be a fruitful term to look through. While my example referred to how a dependency could be a

Looking at your other responses, "software supply chain" may still be a fruitful term to look through. While my example referred to how a dependency could be a vulnerability, you might find something about how updates to those dependencies introduce bugs. I'm thinking about like how changes to Python 3 broke everything. Software supply chains aren't my area of research, but given your descriptions, it sounds like it will still provide worthwhile information.