4 papers
A Longitudinal Analysis of Good First Issue Practices and Newcomer Pull Requests in Popular OSS Projects
Hirotatsu Hoshikawa, Hidetake Tanaka, Kazumasa Shimari +2
Open-source software (OSS) projects rely on effective newcomer onboarding to sustain their communities. OSS projects widely adopt "good first issue" (GFI) labels to highlight begin…
Why Are Agentic Pull Requests Merged or Rejected? An Empirical Study
Sien Reeve O. Peralta, Fumika Hoshi, Hironori Washizaki +8
AI coding agents increasingly submit pull requests (Agentic-PRs) to open-source repositories, yet their performance is commonly assessed using merge and rejection outcomes alone. W…
Understanding the Characteristics of LLM-Generated Property-Based Tests in Exploring Edge Cases
Hidetake Tanaka, Haruto Tanaka, Kazumasa Shimari +1
As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly generate code in software development, ensuring the quality of LLM-generated code has become important. Traditional testing approaches…
Mining for Lags in Updating Critical Security Threats: A Case Study of Log4j Library
Hidetake Tanaka, Kazuma Yamasaki, Momoka Hirose +5
The Log4j-Core vulnerability, known as Log4Shell, exposed significant challenges to dependency management in software ecosystems. When a critical vulnerability is disclosed, it is…