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cs.SE2026
Using LLMs in Software Design: An Empirical Study of GitHub and A Practitioner Survey
Yifei Wang, Ruiyin Li, Peng Liang +5
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential across software engineering tasks, including software design, an area traditionally rega…
cs.SE2023
An Empirical Study of Untangling Patterns of Two-Class Dependency Cycles
Qiong Feng, Shuwen Liu, Huan Ji +2
Dependency cycles pose a significant challenge to software quality and maintainability. However, there is limited understanding of how practitioners resolve dependency cycles in re…
cs.SE2018
A Longitudinal Study of Identifying and Paying Down Architectural Debt
Maleknaz Nayebi, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman +4
Architectural debt is a form of technical debt that derives from the gap between the architectural design of the system as it "should be" compared to "as it is". We measured archit…