Publications

Takafumi Sakura, Ryo Soga, Hideyuki Kanuka, Kazumasa Shimari, Takashi Ishio, “Fault Localization Using LLMs With Line-by-Line Program Execution Traces,” IEEE Access, Vol.14, pp.153014-153030, 2026.

Tetsuya Kitaoka, Yuichiro Kanzaki, Takashi Ishio, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “Evaluating the Resilience of Obfuscated Code Against LLM-based Function Name Recovery in MATE Attacks,” IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E109-D, No.9, Sep. 2026.

Yasuyo Kofune, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “Predicting Struggling Students in CS1 Programming Using Keystroke-Level Editing Features”, 34th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, 2026. (Accepted)

Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “From Code to Comments: A Comparative Evaluation of LLM-Generated and Human-Written Comments,” 2026 IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2026. (Accepted)

Hidetake Tanaka, Hiroshi Igaki, Kazumasa Shimari, Kiyoshi Honda and Naoki Fukuyasu, “Practical Implementation Report on Introducing Spec-Driven Development Using AI Agents in Software Development PBL,” 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, 2026. (Accepted)

Takahiro Monno, Kazumasa Shimari, Tetsuya Kanda, Kazuma Yamasaki and Kenichi Matsumoto, “How Do Developers Use Migration Guides? A Case Study of Log4j,” 30th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2026. (Accepted)

Hirotatsu Hoshikawa, Hidetake Tanaka, Kazumasa Shimari, Raula Gaikovina Kula and Kenichi Matsumoto, “A Longitudinal Analysis of Good First Issue Practices and Newcomer Pull Requests in Popular OSS Projects,” 30th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, 2026. (Accepted)

Kan Watanabe, Rikuto Tsuchida, Takahiro Monno, Bin Huang, Kazuma Yamasaki, Youmei Fan, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “How AI Coding Agents Communicate: A Study of Pull Request Characteristics and Human Review Responses,” Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 878–882, 2026.

Kazuma Yamasaki, Joseph Ayobami Joshua, Tasha Settewong, Mahmoud Alfadel, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “Who Writes the Docs in SE 3.0? Agent vs. Human Documentation Pull Requests,” Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 974–978, 2026.

Raula Gaikovina Kula, Christoph Treude, Xing Hu, Sebastian Baltes, Earl T. Barr, Kelly Blincoe, Fabio Calefato, Junjie Chen, Marc Cheong, Youmei Fan, Daniel M. German, Marco Gerosa, Jin L.C. Guo, Shinpei Hayashi, Robert Hirschfeld, Reid Holmes, Yintong Huo, Takashi Kobayashi, Michele Lanza, Zhongxin Liu, Olivier Nourry, Nicole Novielli, Denys Poshyvanyk, Shinobu Saito, Kazumasa Shimari, Igor Steinmacher, Mairieli Wessel, Markus Wagner, Annie Vella, Laurie Williams, Xin Xia, “Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective,” Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Development Environments, pp. 1–5, 2026.

Haruna Joko, Kazuma Yamasaki , Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto, “A Preliminary Study of References Between ADRs and GitHub Issues and Pull Requests,” Software Engineering Symposium 2026, Poster, Kanagawa, (2026.09).

Kazumasa Shimari, ICSE 2026 Artifact Evaluation Track Distinguished Reviewer Awards