arXiv:2508. 12232v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Issue-to-commit link recovery in software repositories is fundamental to software traceability and project management, yet it remains a challenging task.
arXiv:2507. 16395v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Atomic commits, which address a single development concern, are a best practice in software development.
arXiv:2606. 11976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue.
arXiv:2607. 13111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distinguishing semantic-preserving commits from changing ones remains an open challenge in software repository mining.
arXiv:2605. 17965v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bug localization remains a key bottleneck for large language model (LLM)-based software maintenance, where accurately identifying faulty code is essential for debugging, root cause analysis, triage, and automated program repair (APR).
arXiv:2608. 09072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-powered coding agents are increasingly used to modify existing code repositories, for example, by adding features or fixing bugs.
Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue. Most AI agents explore repositories linearly, that is, visiting one directory or file per step.
arXiv:2607. 00700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLVM is a widely used compiler infrastructure whose scale and complexity make issue resolution labor-intensive and challenging.
arXiv:2607. 08981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-generated code often compiles, passes tests, and appears correct, yet breaks once deployed.
arXiv:2607. 14390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents now produce a growing share of a team's code, while the reasoning behind each change -- the alternatives weighed, the constraints discovered, the approaches rejected -- is trapped in assistant transcripts that vanish with the session.
arXiv:2607. 09224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Version control systems are essential for collaborative software development, yet tools like git remain challenging for many practitioners.
arXiv:2607. 01916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents can repair real repository issues, but they often spend large context budgets on whole-file reads, broad searches, and long terminal outputs where useful evidence is mixed with irrelevant code and logs.
arXiv:2606. 14470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) reasoning is ephemeral: chains of thought vanish with the context window, pruned search branches leave no record, and memory buffers cannot be diffed, merged, or audited.