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AutoTrace: From Patches to Triggers via Agentic Interprocedural Exploration
Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco Vieira, Thomas Zimmermann
Given a vulnerability-fixing commit, trigger localization asks which specific statement turns the vulnerable program state into a concrete unsafe operation. This question is harder…
Recommending Root-Cause and Mitigation Steps for Cloud Incidents using Large Language Models
Toufique Ahmed, Supriyo Ghosh, Chetan Bansal +3
Incident management for cloud services is a complex process involving several steps and has a huge impact on both service health and developer productivity. On-call engineers requi…
Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
The development of open source software (OSS) is a broad field which requires diverse skill sets. For example, maintainers help lead the project and promote its longevity, technica…
Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity
Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
Open source software (OSS) development relies on diverse skill sets. However, to our knowledge, there are no tools which detect OSS-related skills. In this paper, we present a nove…
Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard
Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma +1
Tools and artifacts produced by open source software (OSS) have been woven into the foundation of the technology industry. To keep this foundation intact, the open source community…
Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity
Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
Developers are more than "nerds behind computers all day", they lead a normal life, and not all take the traditional path to learn programming. However, the public still sees softw…