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Configuration Smells in AGENTS.md Files: Common Mistakes in Configuring Coding Agents
Helio Victor F. dos Santos, Vitor Costa, Joao Eduardo Montandon +2
Coding agents are increasingly used to automate software engineering tasks. To guide their behavior, these agents commonly rely on configuration files, typically named AGENTS. md o…
Unboxing Default Argument Breaking Changes in 1 + 2 Data Science Libraries
João Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Cristiano Politowski +3
Data Science (DS) has become a cornerstone for modern software, enabling data-driven decisions to improve companies services. Following modern software development practices, data…
What Skills do IT Companies look for in New Developers? A Study with Stack Overflow Jobs
João Eduardo Montandon, Cristiano Politowski, Luciana Lourdes Silva +3
Context: There is a growing demand for information on how IT companies look for candidates to their open positions. Objective: This paper investigates which hard and soft skills ar…
Is this GitHub Project Maintained? Measuring the Level of Maintenance Activity of Open-Source Projects
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciano Milen +1
Context: GitHub hosts an impressive number of high-quality OSS projects. However, selecting "the right tool for the job" is a challenging task, because we do not have precise infor…
Software Engineering Meets Deep Learning: A Mapping Study
Fabio Ferreira, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Tulio Valente
Deep Learning (DL) is being used nowadays in many traditional Software Engineering (SE) problems and tasks. However, since the renaissance of DL techniques is still very recent, we…
Identifying Experts in Software Libraries and Frameworks among GitHub Users
Joao Eduardo Montandon, Luciana Lourdes Silva, Marco Tulio Valente
Software development increasingly depends on libraries and frameworks to increase productivity and reduce time-to-market. Despite this fact, we still lack techniques to assess deve…
Identifying Unmaintained Projects in GitHub
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciana L. Silva +1
Background: Open source software has an increasing importance in modern software development. However, there is also a growing concern on the sustainability of such projects, which…
Why We Engage in FLOSS: Answers from Core Developers
Jailton Coelho, Marco Tulio Valente, Luciana L. Silva +1
The maintenance and evolution of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects demand the constant attraction of core developers. In this paper, we report the results of a surve…
ModularityCheck: A Tool for Assessing Modularity using Co-Change Clusters
Luciana Silva, Daniel Felix, Marco Tulio Valente +1
It is widely accepted that traditional modular structures suffer from the dominant decomposition problem. Therefore, to improve current modularity views, it is important to investi…