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cs.SE2026

Is Self-Admitted Technical Debt Tested? An Empirical Study of Coverage, Co-change, and Impact

Suzuka Yoshimoto, Kosei Horikawa, Daniel Feitosa +2

When developers write a TODO or FIXME comment, they are explicitly admitting that the code is suboptimal: a built-in warning that this logic deserves extra scrutiny. Yet it is an o…

cs.SE2026

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…

cs.SE2026

What Are Developers Actually Discussing When Visual Regression Tests Fail?

Miku Watanabe, Kosei Horikawa, Brittany Reid +2

Visual Regression Tests (VRTs) are widely adopted as a mechanism for detecting unintended visual changes in user interfaces. By design, VRTs operate on rendered pixel output, and t…

cs.SE2026

Testing with AI Agents: An Empirical Study of Test Generation Frequency, Quality, and Coverage

Suzuka Yoshimoto, Shun Fujita, Kosei Horikawa +3

Agent-based coding tools have transformed software development practices. Unlike prompt-based approaches that require developers to manually integrate generated code, these agent-b…

cs.SE2026

Do AI Agents Really Improve Code Readability?

Kyogo Horikawa, Kosei Horikawa, Yutaro Kashiwa +2

Code readability is fundamental to software quality and maintainability. Poor readability extends development time, increases bug-inducing risks, and contributes to technical debt.…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Agentic Refactoring: An Empirical Study of AI Coding Agents

Kosei Horikawa, Hao Li, Yutaro Kashiwa +3

Agentic coding tools, such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, are changing how software is developed. These AI-powered systems function as autonomous teammates capable of pl…