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most citedGenerative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions

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cs.SE2025

Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software

Tao Xiao, Youmei Fan, Fabio Calefato +4

Strategized LaTeX removal and whitespace normalization approachThe widespread adoption of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT is transforming software de…

cs.SE20241 cited

Developer Reactions to Protestware in Open Source Software: The cases of color.js and es5.ext

Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4

There is growing concern about maintainers self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". Our objective is to u…

cs.SE2024

The Impact of Sanctions on GitHub Developers and Activities

Youmei Fan, Ani Hovhannisyan, Hideaki Hata +2

The GitHub platform has fueled the creation of truly global software, enabling contributions from developers across various geographical regions of the world. As software becomes m…

cs.SE202425 cited

Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions

Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude +1

GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing comp…

cs.SE20249 cited

Quantifying and Characterizing Clones of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems

Tao Xiao, Zhili Zeng, Dong Wang +3

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) annotates development decisions that intentionally exchange long-term software artifact quality for short-term goals. Recent work explores the e…

cs.SE2024

Going Viral: Case Studies on the Impact of Protestware

Youmei Fan, Dong Wang, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +4

Maintainers are now self-sabotaging their work in order to take political or economic stances, a practice referred to as "protestware". In this poster, we present our approach to u…