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most citedEarly Career Developers' Perceptions of Code Understandability. A Study of Complexity Metrics

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Architectural Degradation: How to Measure and to Remediate

Noman Ahmad, Ruoyu Su, Matteo Esposito +3

Context. Architectural degradation undermines software maintainability, evolvability, and quality. However, existing research remains fragmented across measurement approaches, metr…

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AI Writes Code, Humans Pay the Debt. An Empirical Study on the Sustainability and Evolution of Agent-Generated Code

Antonino Coppola, Matteo Esposito, Rick Kazman +1

Context. The increasing adoption of Generative AI coding agents in software engineering is transforming how developers implement and maintain code. While these systems provide shor…

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Towards LLM Accelerated Rapid Reviews for Software Tool Discovery -- Case for Log Anomaly Detection

Jesse Nyyssölä, Hamza Bin Mazhar, Alexander Bakhtin +6

In software engineering research, the primary outcome is frequently a tool. However, for practitioners and academics alike, it is hard to tell which tools are maintained and do the…

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Identifying unique developers in OSS projects: A family of models

Ruoyu Su, Alexander Bakhtin, Matteo Esposito +2

Organizational and logical coupling metrics require reliable identification of unique developers. In OSS, commit metadata is limited to names and emails, and the same developer may…

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Analyzing the Evolution of Structural Communities within Microservice Architecture

Alexander Bakhtin, Matteo Esposito, Valentina Lenarduzzi +1

In recent years, the detection of anti-patterns in microservice architecture has gained traction, particularly to identify instances of Microservice Architectural Degradation. In s…

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A Research Agenda on Agents and Software Engineering: Outcomes from the Rio A2SE Seminar

Davide Taibi, Henry Muccini, Karthik Vaidhyanathan +15

The rise of agentic AI is reshaping software engineering in two intertwined directions: agents are increasingly applied to support software engineering tasks, and Agentic AI system…

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Can AI Agents Generate Microservices? How Far are We?

Bassam Adnan, Matteo Esposito, Davide Taibi +1

LLMs have advanced code generation, but their use for generating microservices with explicit dependencies and API contracts remains understudied. We examine whether AI agents can g…

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The Invisible Hand of AI Libraries Shaping Open Source Projects and Communities

Matteo Esposito, Andrea Janes, Valentina Lenarduzzi +1

In the early 1980s, Open Source Software emerged as a revolutionary concept amidst the dominance of proprietary software. What began as a revolutionary idea has now become the corn…

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Evaluating Large Language Models for Detecting Architectural Decision Violations

Ruoyu Su, Alexander Bakhtin, Noman Ahmad +3

Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) play a central role in maintaining software architecture quality, yet many decision violations go unnoticed because projects lack both systema…

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Sovereign-by-Design A Reference Architecture for AI and Blockchain Enabled Systems

Matteo Esposito, Lodovica Marchesi, Roberto Tonelli +1

Digital sovereignty has emerged as a central concern for modern software-intensive systems, driven by the dominance of non-sovereign cloud infrastructures, the rapid adoption of Ge…

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A Defect is Being Born: How Close Are We? A Time Sensitive Forecasting Approach

Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2

Background. Defect prediction has been a highly active topic among researchers in the Empirical Software Engineering field. Previous literature has successfully achieved the most a…