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With the advances in machine learning, there is a growing interest in AI-enabled tools for autocompleting source code. GitHub Copilot, also referred to as the "AI Pair Programmer", has been trained on billions of lines of open source GitHub…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Beiqi Zhang , Peng Liang , Xiyu Zhou , Aakash Ahmad , Muhammad Waseem

AI-based code review tools automatically review and comment on pull requests to improve code quality. Despite their growing presence, little is known about their actual impact. We present a large-scale empirical study of 16 popular AI-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kexin Sun , Hongyu Kuang , Sebastian Baltes , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Xiaoxing Ma , Guoping Rong , Dong Shao , Christoph Treude

Issue resolution and bug-fixing processes are essential in the development of machine-learning libraries, similar to software development, to ensure well-optimized functions. Understanding the issue resolution and bug-fixing process of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Adekunle Ajibode , Dong Yunwei , Yang Hongji

The rapid adoption of foundation models (e.g., large language models) has given rise to promptware, i.e., software built using natural language prompts. Effective management of prompts, such as organization and quality assurance, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hao Li , Hicham Masri , Filipe R. Cogo , Abdul Ali Bangash , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

GitHub is the largest host of open source software on the Internet. This large, freely accessible database has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But as GitHub's growth continues, it is becoming increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Francisco Zanartu , Christoph Treude , Bruno Cartaxo , Hudson Silva Borges , Pedro Moura , Markus Wagner , Gustavo Pinto

This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code across public GitHub repositories. We collected and analyzed 7,703 files explicitly attributed to four major AI tools: ChatGPT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maximilian Schreiber , Pascal Tippe

AI coding assistants are now widely used in software development. Software developers increasingly integrate AI-generated code into their codebases to improve productivity. Prior studies have shown that AI-generated code may contain code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yue Liu , Ratnadira Widyasari , Yanjie Zhao , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Junkai Chen , David Lo

In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jessy Ayala , Joshua Garcia

App reviews reflect various user requirements that can aid in planning maintenance tasks. Recently, proposed approaches for automatically classifying user reviews rely on machine learning algorithms. A previous study demonstrated that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yasaman Abedini , Abbas Heydarnoori

Background: The development of AI-enabled software heavily depends on AI model documentation, such as model cards, due to different domain expertise between software engineers and model developers. From an ethical standpoint, AI model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Haoyu Gao , Mansooreh Zahedi , Christoph Treude , Sarita Rosenstock , Marc Cheong

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) leverages AI approaches to handle the massive amount of data generated during the operations of software systems. Prior works have proposed various AIOps solutions to support different tasks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Developers often struggle to navigate an Open Source Software (OSS) project's issue-tracking system and find a suitable task. Proper issue labeling can aid task selection, but current tools are limited to classifying the issues according to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Joseph Vargovich , Fabio Santos , Jacob Penney , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

GitHub is the world's largest host of source code, with more than 150M repositories. However, most of these repositories are not labeled or inadequately so, making it harder for users to find relevant projects. There have been various…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi , Claudio Di Sipio , Juri Di Rocco , Davide Di Ruscio

Throughout 2021, GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories revealed a two-fold increase in the number of secrets (database credentials, API keys, and other credentials) exposed compared to 2020, accumulating more than six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Setu Kumar Basak , Lorenzo Neil , Bradley Reaves , Laurie Williams

Pre-trained models (PTMs) have gained widespread popularity and achieved remarkable success across various fields, driven by their groundbreaking performance and easy accessibility through hosting providers. However, the challenges faced by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Peerachai Banyongrakkul , Mansooreh Zahedi , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude , Haoyu Gao

Developers use and contribute to repositories on GitHub. Documentation present in the repositories serves as an important source by helping developers to understand, maintain and contribute to the project. Currently, documentation in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

GitHub, renowned for facilitating collaborative code version control and software production in software teams, expanded its services in 2017 by introducing GitHub Marketplace. This online platform hosts automation tools to assist…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 SK Golam Saroar , Waseefa Ahmed , Elmira Onagh , Maleknaz Nayebi

Hidden license conflicts in the open-source AI ecosystem pose serious legal and ethical risks, exposing organizations to potential litigation and users to undisclosed risk. However, the field lacks a data-driven understanding of how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-15 James Jewitt , Hao Li , Bram Adams , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Ahmed E. Hassan

Open-source repositories provide wealth of information and are increasingly being used to build artificial intelligence (AI) based systems to solve problems in software engineering. Open-source repositories could be of varying quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Niranjan Hasabnis

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has become a central component of many development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) that support software practitioners across multiple programming tasks, including code completion, documentation, and…