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AgentLogs: A Dataset for Opening the Black Box of Cloud Agents on GitHub
Jonan Richards, Kosei Horikawa, Youmei Fan +2
Coding agents now complete development tasks in real software projects and submit the results as pull requests. A pull request shows the outcome of an agent's execution but not the…
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…
Who Said CVE? How Vulnerability Identifiers Are Mentioned by Humans, Bots, and Agents in Pull Requests
Pien Rooijendijk, Christoph Treude, Mairieli Wessel
Vulnerability identifiers such as CVE, CWE, and GHSA are standardised references to known software security issues, yet their use in practice is not well understood. This paper com…
The Competence Crisis: A Design Fiction on AI-Assisted Research in Software Engineering
Mairieli Wessel, Daniel Feitosa, Sangeeth Kochanthara
Rising publication pressure and the routine use of generative AI tools are reshaping how software engineering research is produced, assessed, and taught. While these developments p…
From Diverse Origins to a DEI Crisis: The Pushback Against Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Ann Barcomb, Mairieli Wessel +1
Background: Diversity, equity, and inclusion are rooted in the very origins of software engineering, shaped by the contributions from many individuals from underrepresented groups…
Bridging HCI and AI Research for the Evaluation of Conversational SE Assistants
Jonan Richards, Mairieli Wessel
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in software engineering, recently in the form of conversational assistants, ensuring these technologies align with develope…
What You Need is What You Get: Theory of Mind for an LLM-Based Code Understanding Assistant
Jonan Richards, Mairieli Wessel
A growing number of tools have used Large Language Models (LLMs) to support developers' code understanding. However, developers still face several barriers to using such tools, inc…
The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems
Mairieli Wessel, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan +1
Large-scale software development has become a highly collaborative and geographically distributed endeavour, especially in open-source software development ecosystems and their ass…
Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub
Mairieli Wessel, Andy Zaidman, Marco Gerosa +1
Projects on GitHub rely on the automation provided by software development bots to uphold quality and alleviate developers' workload. Nevertheless, the presence of bots can be anno…
Together or Apart? Investigating a mediator bot to aggregate bot's comments on pull requests
Eric Ribeiro, Ronan Nascimento, Igor Steinmacher +4
Software bots connect users and tools, streamlining the pull request review process in social coding platforms. However, bots can introduce information overload into developers' co…
The Present and Future of Bots in Software Engineering
Emad Shihab, Stefan Wagner, Marco A. Gerosa +2
We are witnessing a massive adoption of software engineering bots, applications that react to events triggered by tools and messages posted by users and run automated tasks in resp…
GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process
Mairieli Wessel, Joseph Vargovich, Marco A. Gerosa +1
Software projects frequently use automation tools to perform repetitive activities in the distributed software development process. Recently, GitHub introduced GitHub Actions, a fe…
Don't Disturb Me: Challenges of Interacting with SoftwareBots on Open Source Software Projects
Mairieli Wessel, Igor Wiese, Igor Steinmacher +1
Software bots are used to streamline tasks in Open Source Software (OSS) projects' pull requests, saving development cost, time, and effort. However, their presence can be disrupti…
How Do Software Developers Use GitHub Actions to Automate Their Workflows?
Timothy Kinsman, Mairieli Wessel, Marco A. Gerosa +1
Automated tools are frequently used in social coding repositories to perform repetitive activities that are part of the distributed software development process. Recently, GitHub i…
Quality Gatekeepers: Investigating the Effects ofCode Review Bots on Pull Request Activities
Mairieli Wessel, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Wiese +2
Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts…