6 papers
From Commits to Confidence: Towards Stability-Informed Risk Assessment in Open Source Software
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Mariam Guizani, Brittany Johnson
Open source software (OSS) generates trillions of dollars in economic value and has become essential to the technical infrastructures that power organizations worldwide. As these s…
Towards Bridging Language Gaps in OSS with LLM-Driven Documentation Translation
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Mariam Guizani, Fatemeh Vares +1
While open source communities attract diverse contributors across the globe, only a few open source software repositories provide essential documentation, such as ReadMe or CONTRIB…
Towards A Cultural Intelligence and Values Inferences Quality Benchmark for Community Values and Common Knowledge
Brittany Johnson, Erin Reddick, Angela D. R. Smith
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful technology, and thus, we have seen widespread adoption and use on software engineering teams. Most often, LLMs are designed…
Why Do We Code? A Theory on Motivations and Challenges in Software Engineering from Education to Practice
Aaliyah Chang, Mariam Guizani, Brittany Johnson
Motivations and challenges jointly shape how individuals enter, persist, and evolve within software engineering (SE), yet their interplay remains underexplored across the transitio…
Explaining Code Risk in OSS: Towards LLM-Generated Fault Prediction Interpretations
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Brittany Johnson
Open Source Software (OSS) has become a very important and crucial infrastructure worldwide because of the value it provides. OSS typically depends on contributions from developers…
An Empirical Validation of Open Source Repository Stability Metrics
Elijah Kayode Adejumo, Brittany Johnson
Over the past few decades, open source software has been continuously integrated into software supply chains worldwide, drastically increasing reliance and dependence. Because of t…