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Scale, Concentration, and Entry Timing in the Shopify App Ecosystem: A Longitudinal Study of Platform Governance and Application Survival
Fabrizio Assabese, Peter-Jan Celis, Giuseppe Destefanis
The Shopify marketplace hosts more than 16,000 active third-party applications, serving 2.7 million active merchant stores generating an estimated $706 billion in annual sales, ye…
Authoring Agent Skills: A Software-Engineering Approach
Giuseppe Destefanis
Agent Skills are an emerging way to extend large language model agents with reusable procedural knowledge that the agent loads on demand. Anthropic introduced Agent Skills and publ…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Representation in Software Engineering Education Videos on YouTube
Isabella Graßl, Alexander Serebrenik, Giuseppe Destefanis
Educational resources may frame students' perceptions of who belongs in software engineering, which is relevant given the field's ongoing gender gap. However, we know little about…
Academic Integrity and Emotional Responses to Inappropriate LLM Use in Software Engineering Education
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, Giuseppe Destefanis +2
Academic integrity in higher education is increasingly shaped by complex socio-technical environments marked by automated tools, evolving institutional practices, and heightened pe…
Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience
Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +1
Smart contract vulnerabilities have caused billions in financial losses, raising questions about whether programming language paradigms can reduce security overhead. While imperati…
Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +3
Labels on platforms such as GitHub support triage and coordination, yet little is known about how well they align with code modifications or how such alignment affects collaboratio…
Patterns of Bot Participation and Emotional Influence in Open-Source Development
Matteo Vaccargiu, Riccardo Lai, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +2
We study how bots contribute to open-source discussions in the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they influence developers' emotional tone. Our dataset covers 36,875 accounts across t…
Micro-Patterns in Solidity Code
Luca Ruschioni, Robert Shuttleworth, Rumyana Neykova +2
Solidity is the predominant programming language for blockchain-based smart contracts, and its characteristics pose significant challenges for code analysis and maintenance. Tradit…
Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review
P. Soares, A. A. Araujo, G. Destefanis +3
The rise of smart contracts has expanded blockchain's capabilities, enabling the development of innovative decentralized applications (dApps). However, this advancement brings its…