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Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions
Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude +1
GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing comp…
Quantifying and Characterizing Clones of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Build Systems
Tao Xiao, Zhili Zeng, Dong Wang +3
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) annotates development decisions that intentionally exchange long-term software artifact quality for short-term goals. Recent work explores the e…
"My GitHub Sponsors profile is live!" Investigating the Impact of Twitter/X Mentions on GitHub Sponsors
Youmei Fan, Tao Xiao, Hideaki Hata +2
GitHub Sponsors was launched in 2019, enabling donations to open-source software developers to provide financial support, as per GitHub's slogan: "Invest in the projects you depend…
More Than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests
Dong Wang, Tao Xiao, Teyon Son +4
Open source software development has become more social and collaborative, evident GitHub. Since 2016, GitHub started to support more informal methods such as emoji reactions, with…
18 Million Links in Commit Messages: Purpose, Evolution, and Decay
Tao Xiao, Sebastian Baltes, Hideaki Hata +4
Commit messages contain diverse and valuable types of knowledge in all aspects of software maintenance and evolution. Links are an example of such knowledge. Previous work on "9.6…
Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow
Dong Wang, Tao Xiao, Christoph Treude +3
Images are increasingly being shared by software developers in diverse channels including question-and-answer forums like Stack Overflow. Although prior work has pointed out that t…