3 papers
cs.SE2026
Who Writes the Docs in SE 3.0? Agent vs. Human Documentation Pull Requests
Kazuma Yamasaki, Joseph Ayobami Joshua, Tasha Settewong +3
As software engineering moves toward SE3.0, AI agents are increasingly used to carry out development tasks and contribute changes to software projects. It is therefore important to…
cs.SE2025
The Cost of Downgrading Build Systems: A Case Study of Kubernetes
Gareema Ranjan, Mahmoud Alfadel, Gengyi Sun +1
Since developers invoke the build system frequently, its performance can impact productivity. Modern artifact-based build tools accelerate builds, yet prior work shows that teams m…
cs.SE2025
An empirical study on declined proposals: why are these proposals declined?
Masanari Kondo, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh +2
Design-level decisions in open-source software (OSS) projects are often made through structured mechanisms such as proposals, which require substantial community discussion and rev…