2 papers
cs.SE2026
Yesterday's Code, Today's Dependencies: How Dependency Selection Shapes PHP Migration Benchmarks
Afridi Mahmud, Md. As-Aid Rahman, Rifat Shahriyar
Migration benchmarks need projects whose tests pass before migration begins. Yet an old project can behave differently without any change to its code. Reinstalling it today may int…
cs.SE2026
When Modernization Breaks Working Code: A Single-File Study of LLMs on Legacy PHP
Afridi Mahmud, Abid Hasan Khondaker, Sadif Ahmed +2
Pasting a legacy file into an LLM and asking it to "modernize this" is an easy shortcut. But is the result better than leaving the code alone? In this paper, we study this single-f…