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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…
Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem
Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai, Dong Wang, Raula Gaikovina Kula +4
Popular adoption of third-party libraries for contemporary software development has led to the creation of large inter-dependency networks, where sustainability issues of a single…
On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries
Ayano Ikegami, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Bodin Chinthanet +4
Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software development. With the growing threat of security vulnerabilities, applying security fixes in a timely manner is…
Software Supply Chain Map: How Reuse Networks Expand
Hideaki Hata, Takashi Ishio
Clone-and-own is a typical code reuse approach because of its simplicity and efficiency. Cloned software components are maintained independently by a new owner. These clone-and-own…
Does Coding in Pythonic Zen Peak Performance? Preliminary Experiments of Nine Pythonic Idioms at Scale
Pattara Leelaprute, Bodin Chinthanet, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai +3
In the field of data science, and for academics in general, the Python programming language is a popular choice, mainly because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gain…