3 papers
cs.SE2026
How Do Developers Use Migration Guides? A Case Study of Log4j
Takahiro Monno, Kazumasa Shimari, Tetsuya Kanda +2
Migration guides are a form of software documentation that helps developers address breaking changes introduced in library version updates. Prior studies have examined documents su…
cs.AI2026
How AI Coding Agents Communicate: A Study of Pull Request Description Characteristics and Human Review Responses
Kan Watanabe, Rikuto Tsuchida, Takahiro Monno +5
The rapid adoption of large language models has led to the emergence of AI coding agents that autonomously create pull requests on GitHub. However, how these agents differ in their…
cs.SE2026
Let's Make Every Pull Request Meaningful: An Empirical Analysis of Developer and Agentic Pull Requests
Haruhiko Yoshioka, Takahiro Monno, Haruka Tokumasu +4
The automatic generation of pull requests (PRs) using AI agents has become increasingly common. Although AI-generated PRs are fast and easy to create, their merge rates have been r…