How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests.

John Businge

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge How AI Coding Agents Modify Code: A Large-Scale Study of GitHub Pull Requests. 2026 January abs/2601.17581 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.17581 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-17581 streams/journals/corr

Jorge Gonzalo Delgado Cervantes John Businge Daniel Ogenrwot MOVis: A Visual Analytics Tool for Surfacing Missed Patches Across Software Variants. 2026 April abs/2604.01494 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.01494 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-01494 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge AgenticFlict: A Large-Scale Dataset of Merge Conflicts in AI Coding Agent Pull Requests on GitHub. 2026 April abs/2604.03551 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.03551 db/journals/corr/corr2604.html#abs-2604-03551 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge Refactoring-Aware Patch Integration Across Structurally Divergent Java Forks. 25-36 2025 SCAM https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM67354.2025.00010 conf/scam/2025 db/conf/scam/scam2025.html#OgenrwotB25

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge PatchTrack: A Comprehensive Analysis of ChatGPT's Influence on Pull Request Outcomes. 2025 May abs/2505.07700 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.07700 db/journals/corr/corr2505.html#abs-2505-07700 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge Refactoring-Aware Patch Integration Across Structurally Divergent Java Forks. 2025 August abs/2508.06718 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.06718 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-06718 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge Shaikh Arifuzzaman Structural and Connectivity Patterns in the Maven Central Software Dependency Network. 2025 August abs/2508.13819 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.13819 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-13819 streams/journals/corr

Davis Byamugisha Francis Kamuganga Adones Rukundo John Businge A Collaborative Model for Improving Information Sharing among Cancer Care Groups using Software Engineering Principles. 2025 November abs/2511.06885 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.06885 db/journals/corr/corr2511.html#abs-2511-06885 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Ogenrwot John Businge PatchTrack: Analyzing ChatGPT's Impact on Software Patch Decision-Making in Pull Requests. 2480-2481 2024 ASE https://doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695338 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130828837 conf/kbse/2024 db/conf/kbse/ase2024.html#OgenrwotB24 Daniel Ogenrwot Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende John Businge Michel Chaudron Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Design Smells and Role Stereotypes. 2024 March https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10775827 Zenodo streams/repo/zenodo

Daniel Ogenrwot Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende John Businge Michel R. V. Chaudron Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Design Smells and Role Stereotypes. 2024 abs/2406.19254 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.19254 db/journals/corr/corr2406.html#abs-2406-19254 streams/journals/corr

John Businge Mehrdad Abdi Serge Demeyer Analyzing Variant Forks of Software Repositories from Social Coding Platforms. 131-152 2023 Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36060-2_6 books/sp/23/MRC2023 db/books/collections/MRC2023.html#BusingeAD23

John Businge Moses Openja Sarah Nadi Thorsten Berger Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems. 54 2022 27 Empir. Softw. Eng. 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-10078-2 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115468443 db/journals/ese/ese27.html#BusingeONB22

Poedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen John Businge Brent van Bladel Alexandre Decan Serge Demeyer Coen De Roover Foutse Khomh PaReco: patched clones and missed patches among the divergent variants of a software family. 646-658 2022 ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3549112 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130865916 conf/sigsoft/2022 db/conf/sigsoft/fse2022.html#RamkisoenBBDDRK22 John Businge Ahmed Zerouali Alexandre Decan Tom Mens Serge Demeyer Coen De Roover Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments. 867-877 2022 SANER https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00105 conf/wcre/2022 db/conf/wcre/saner2022.html#BusingeZDMDR22 Henrique Rocha John Businge Blockchain-Oriented Software Variant Forks: A Preliminary Study. 1191-1196 2022 SANER https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER53432.2022.00139 conf/wcre/2022 db/conf/wcre/saner2022.html#RochaB22

Henrique Rocha John Businge Blockchain-Oriented Software Variant Forks: A Preliminary Study. 2022 abs/2204.11083 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.11083 db/journals/corr/corr2204.html#abs-2204-11083

John Businge Alexandre Decan Ahmed Zerouali Tom Mens Serge Demeyer An Empirical Investigation of Forks as Variants in the npm Package Distribution. 2020 BENEVOL https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2912/paper1.pdf conf/benevol/2020 db/conf/benevol/benevol2020.html#BusingeDZMD20 Mercy Njima John Businge Serge Demeyer An Empirical Study of Technical Debt Management as a Motivation for Forking. 2020 BENEVOL https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2912/paper2.pdf conf/benevol/2020 db/conf/benevol/benevol2020.html#NjimaBD20 John Businge Simon Kawuma Moses Openja Engineer Bainomugisha Alexander Serebrenik How Stable Are Eclipse Application Framework Internal Interfaces? 117-127 2019 SANER https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2019.8668018 conf/wcre/2019 db/conf/wcre/saner2019.html#BusingeKOBS19 John Businge Moses Openja David Kavaler Engineer Bainomugisha Foutse Khomh Vladimir Filkov Studying Android App Popularity by Cross-Linking GitHub and Google Play Store. 287-297 2019 SANER https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2019.8667998 conf/wcre/2019 db/conf/wcre/saner2019.html#BusingeOKBKF19 John Businge Moses Openja Sarah Nadi Engineer Bainomugisha Thorsten Berger Clone-Based Variability Management in the Android Ecosystem. 625-634 2018 ICSME https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSME.2018.00072 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSME.2018.00072 conf/icsm/2018 db/conf/icsm/icsme2018.html#BusingeONBB18 John Businge Simon Kawuma Engineer Bainomugisha Foutse Khomh Evarist Nabaasa Code Authorship and Fault-proneness of Open-Source Android Applications: An Empirical Study. 33-42 2017 PROMISE https://doi.org/10.1145/3127005.3127009 conf/promise/2017 db/conf/promise/promise2017.html#BusingeKBKN17 Simon Kawuma John Businge Engineer Bainomugisha Can we find stable alternatives for unstable Eclipse interfaces? 1-10 2016 ICPC https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2016.7503716 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICPC.2016.7503716 conf/iwpc/2016 db/conf/iwpc/icpc2016.html#KawumaBB16

John Businge Alexander Serebrenik Mark G. J. van den Brand Eclipse API usage: the good and the bad. 107-141 2015 23 Softw. Qual. J. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-013-9221-3 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q123219014 db/journals/sqj/sqj23.html#BusingeSB15

John Businge Alexander Serebrenik Mark van den Brand Analyzing the Eclipse API Usage: Putting the Developer in the Loop. 37-46 2013 CSMR https://doi.org/10.1109/CSMR.2013.14 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSMR.2013.14 conf/csmr/2013 db/conf/csmr/csmr2013.html#BusingeSB13 John Businge Co-evolution of the Eclipse SDK Framework and Its Third-Party Plug-Ins. 427-430 2013 CSMR https://doi.org/10.1109/CSMR.2013.64 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSMR.2013.64 conf/csmr/2013 db/conf/csmr/csmr2013.html#Businge13 John Businge Alexander Serebrenik Mark van den Brand Survival of Eclipse third-party plug-ins. 368-377 2012 ICSM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405295 conf/icsm/2012 db/conf/icsm/icsm2012.html#BusingeSB12 John Businge Alexander Serebrenik Mark van den Brand Compatibility Prediction of Eclipse Third-Party Plug-ins in New Eclipse Releases. 164-173 2012 SCAM https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM.2012.10 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SCAM.2012.10 conf/scam/2012 db/conf/scam/scam2012.html#BusingeSB12 John Businge Alexander Serebrenik Mark van den Brand An empirical study of the evolution of Eclipse third-party plug-ins. 63-72 2010 EVOL/IWPSE https://doi.org/10.1145/1862372.1862389 conf/iwpse/2010 db/conf/iwpse/iwpse2010.html#BusingeSB10 Mehrdad Abdi S. M. ArifuzzamanShaikh Arifuzzaman Engineer Bainomugisha Thorsten Berger Brent van Bladel Mark van den BrandMark G. J. van den Brand Davis Byamugisha Jorge Gonzalo Delgado Cervantes Michel R. V. ChaudronMichel Chaudron Alexandre Decan Serge Demeyer Vladimir Filkov Francis Kamuganga David Kavaler Simon Kawuma Foutse Khomh Tom Mens Evarist Nabaasa Sarah Nadi Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende Mercy Njima Daniel Ogenrwot Moses Openja Poedjadevie RamkisoenPoedjadevie Kadjel Ramkisoen Henrique Rocha Coen De Roover Adones Rukundo Alexander Serebrenik Ahmed Zerouali