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"Refactoring Runaway": Understanding and Mitigating Tangled Refactorings in Coding Agents for Issue Resolution

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Main Authors:	Tian, Zhao, Zhang, Zifan, Xiao, Tao, Wang, Dong, Kondo, Masanari, Chen, Junjie, Kamei, Yasutaka
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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