10 papers
How Humans, Bots, and Agents Communicate About Vulnerabilities in Pull Requests
Pien Rooijendijk, Christoph Treude, Mairieli Wessel
Developers may reference vulnerabilities in pull request discussions through both explicit identifiers, such as CVEs or GHSAs, and implicit security-related language (e.g., "unauth…
Teaching Empathy in Software Engineering Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Cleyton Magalhães, Giuseppe Destefanis +5
Empathy has been discussed as a relevant human capability in software engineering, particularly in activities that require understanding users, stakeholders, and the societal impli…
LLM Use, Cheating, and Academic Integrity in Software Engineering Education
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, Mariana Bento +3
Background: Cheating in university education is commonly described as context dependent and influenced by assessment design, institutional norms, and student interpretation. In sof…
How Fair is Software Fairness Testing?
Ann Barcomb, Mariana Pinheiro Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis +4
Software fairness testing is a central method for evaluating AI systems, yet the meaning of fairness is often treated as fixed and universally applicable. This vision paper positio…
An Empirical Study of the Evolution of GitHub Actions Workflows
Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens +1
CI/CD practices play a significant role during collaborative software development by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as testing, building, quality checking, dep…
Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective
Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu +28
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models are achieving remarkable performance in various tasks, including code generation, testing, code review, and program repair. The ab…