5 papers
Making AI Visible, Not Vanished: How AI Policies Reshape Developer Experience on GitHub
Yunqi Chen, Thomas Zimmermann, Bianca Trinkenreich
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping Open Source Software (OSS) software development,prompting projects to introduce policies governing AI-assisted contributions. However, little is…
Developers' Experience with Generative AI Beyond Productivity Assessment -- Insights from an Empirical Mixed-Methods Field Study
Charlotte Brandebusemeyer, Kerim Zunic, Thomas Zimmermann +2
With the growing adoption of AI-powered coding assistants, organizations and developers are increasingly seeking to optimize their interaction with these tools. Prior research has…
What Makes a Good Bug Report for an AI Agent?
Lara Khatib, Noble Saji Mathews, Meiyappan Nagappan +2
Automated program repair (APR) agents are transitioning from research benchmarks to developer workflows, yet they still begin with bug reports written for human developers. While d…
Taking a Pulse on How Generative AI is Reshaping the Software Engineering Research Landscape
Bianca Trinkenreich, Fabio Calefato, Kelly Blincoe +8
Context: Software engineering (SE) researchers increasingly study Generative AI (GenAI) while also incorporating it into their own research practices. Despite rapid adoption, there…
Time Warp: The Gap Between Developers' Ideal vs Actual Workweeks in an AI-Driven Era
Sukrit Kumar, Drishti Goel, Thomas Zimmermann +3
Software developers balance a variety of different tasks in a workweek, yet the allocation of time often differs from what they consider ideal. Identifying and addressing these dev…