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    10 research topics · 28 questions

    The Mystery of the Weak Correlation Between Test Coverage and Field Failure Rate4 questions

    1. Quantitative relationship between structural test coverage and field software reliability

    2. Does Unit-Tested Code Crash Beyond Eclipse? Generalizing and Explaining the Absent Association Between Unit Testing and Field Failures

    3. Which test-suite properties predict post-release defects when confounders are controlled? Generalizing the Apache Commons evidence

    4. Is the association between unit-test coverage and single-statement bugs robust, causal, and generalizable?

    Long-Term Maintainability of Code Generated by Large Language Models3 questions

    1. The long-term maintenance burden of autonomous-agent-generated code: trajectory, composition, and interpretation relative to human-authored code

    2. Validating LLM-derived cross-entropy as a signal of code maintainability

    3. Validated and Enforceable Maintainability and Readability Measurement for LLM-Generated Code

    Does Code Review Reduce Defects or Only Delay Merging1 questions

    1. Empirical evaluation of process levers for code review speed: selective commit-then-review, reviewer incentives, and dedicated review time

    The relationship between self-admitted technical debt and actual maintenance costs3 questions

    1. Quantifying the lifecycle and maintenance impact of deep-learning-specific self-admitted technical debt on larger, more diverse corpora

    2. Objective Measurement of Technical-Debt Interest: Validating Perceived Estimates of TD-Induced Wasted Development Time

    3. Do Self-Admitted Technical Debt Types Differ in Their Impact on Method-Level Software Maintenance?

    Inconsistency Between Open Source Project Bus Factor and Actual Maintenance Resilience4 questions

    1. Threshold calibration and data-driven validation of CST and RIG bus-factor estimation

    2. Why some open-source projects survive losing their core development team: causal mechanisms and measurement robustness of truck-factor developer detachment

    3. A comprehension-grounded instrument for measuring theory retention in software systems at whole-system and whole-team scale

    4. Open validation and extension agenda for the multimodal bus factor estimator of Jabrayilzade et al. (ICSE-SEIP 2022)

    Sudden Drop in Cross-Project Transfer Performance of Defect Prediction Models2 questions

    1. Source-project selection and exploitation for cross-project defect prediction under heterogeneous metrics and downstream aggregation

    2. Label-free detection of tendency-reversed metric matches in heterogeneous defect prediction

    Reversal of Development Agility and Operations Complexity After Microservices Splitting3 questions

    1. Causal outcome evaluation of microservices migration decision-points: quantifying how migration choices affect migration outcomes

    2. How do the motivations, benefits, and issues of microservices adoption evolve over time? An unresolved empirical question from Taibi, Lenarduzzi and Pahl (2017)

    3. Testing methodologies and database-management strategies for monolith-to-microservice migrations: closing the empirical gap identified by practitioner research

    How architectural dependencies amplify fluctuations in requirements4 questions

    1. Generalizing the requirements–architecture dependency taxonomy and change-impact metrics beyond a single case: cross-domain and cross-view validation

    2. Causal relationships between requirements volatility and software architecture outcomes: from single-case correlation to validated causal, cross-context knowledge

    3. Validating the change propagation probability metric for assessing design quality of software architectures on larger case studies

    4. Empirical validation and operationalization of the nine-type requirement dependency model for change propagation analysis

    Do Dependency Update Bots Reduce or Increase Supply Chain Risks2 questions

    1. Do automated dependency-update bots on net reduce or increase software supply-chain risk?

    2. Causal attribution, long-term persistence, and heterogeneity of GitHub's security interventions (security alerts, Dependabot security updates, and CodeQL code scanning)

    Overfitting Patch Issues in Automatic Program Repair2 questions

    1. Breaking in-loop test–fix coupling in iteratively hardened co-generated bug reproduction tests and fixes

    2. Determining Intended Behavior and Validating Patch Correctness for Under-Specified Issues in SWE-bench-style Benchmarks

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