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GitSkills: A Dataset of Agent Skills on GitHub
Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Graziotin, Matteo Vaccargiu +1
An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for a language-model agent, optionally accompanied by scripts and reference files. The agent loads the skill…
The Replication Assessment Problem in Software Engineering
Giuseppe Destefanis, Martin Shepperd, Leila Yousefi
The paper reviews recent software engineering replication studies to show how their outcomes are assessed inconsistently, and proposes a principled framework for evaluating replica…
An Audit of Machine Learning Experiments on Software Defect Prediction
Giuseppe Destefanis, Leila Yousefi, Martin Shepperd +4
Background: Machine learning algorithms are widely used to predict defect prone software components. In this literature, computational experiments are the main means of evaluation,…
Introducing Repository Stability
Giuseppe Destefanis, Silvia Bartolucci, Daniel Graziotin +2
Drawing from engineering systems and control theory, we introduce a framework to understand repository stability, which is a repository activity capacity to return to equilibrium f…
Mining a Decade of Event Impacts on Contributor Dynamics in Ethereum: A Longitudinal Study
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Cheick Ba +6
We analyze developer activity across 10 major Ethereum repositories (totaling 129884 commits, 40550 issues) spanning 10 years to examine how events such as technical upgrades, mark…