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Code agents are currently having skillful performance on repository-level software engineering benchmarks, but it remains unclear whether success on end-to-end tasks such as issue resolution truly reflects repository context reasoning, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hanyu Li , Yichi Zhang , Speed Zhu , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yinpeng Dong

Code auditing is the process of reviewing code with the aim of identifying bugs. Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities for this task without requiring compilation, while also supporting user-friendly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jinyao Guo , Chengpeng Wang , Xiangzhe Xu , Zian Su , Xiangyu Zhang

While "Intent-oriented programming" (or "Vibe Coding") redefines software engineering, existing code agents remain tethered to static code snapshots. Consequently, they struggle to model the critical information embedded in the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yi-Xuan Deng , Xiaoqin Liu , Yi Zhang , Guo-Wei Yang , Shuojin Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at code-related tasks but often struggle in realistic software repositories, where project-specific APIs and cross-file dependencies are crucial. Retrieval-augmented methods mitigate this by injecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 George Ma , Anurag Koul , Qi Chen , Yawen Wu , Sachit Kuhar , Yu Yu , Aritra Sengupta , Varun Kumar , Murali Krishna Ramanathan

Maintaining large-scale, multilingual codebases hinges on accurately localizing issues, which requires mapping natural-language error descriptions to the relevant functions that need to be modified. However, existing ranking approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Revanth Gangi Reddy , Ye Liu , Wenting Zhao , JaeHyeok Doo , Tarun Suresh , Daniel Lee , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz , Shafiq Joty

Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of mature software is typically predicated on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jialong Chen , Xander Xu , Hu Wei , Chuan Chen , Bing Zhao

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, developers increasingly rely on AI-assisted tools to support code generation. While LLMs can generate syntactically correct solutions for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yiping Jia , Zhen Ming Jiang , Shayan Noei , Ying Zou

Recent advancements in code-fluent Large Language Models (LLMs) enabled the research on repository-level code editing. In such tasks, the model navigates and modifies the entire codebase of a project according to request. Hence, such tasks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Alexander Kovrigin , Aleksandra Eliseeva , Yaroslav Zharov , Timofey Bryksin

Automatic program repair can be a challenging task, especially when resolving complex issues at a repository-level, which often involves issue reproduction, fault localization, code repair, testing and validation. Issues of this scale can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Joseph Townsend , Chandresh Pravin , Kwun Ho Ngan , Matthieu Parizy

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in automated code generation but typically excel only in simpler tasks such as generating standalone code units. Real-world software development, however, often involves complex code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kechi Zhang , Jia Li , Ge Li , Xianjie Shi , Zhi Jin

Bug fixing is a complex and time-consuming task in software development. Bug localization research tends to focus on the accuracy of automated tools that suggest source code files for developers to look at. However, little is known about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pablo Diaz Pedreira , Tamara Lopez , Michel Wermelinger

Software engineers resolving repository-level issues do not treat existing tests as immutable correctness oracles. Instead, they iteratively refine both code and the tests used to characterize intended behavior, as new modifications expose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kefan Li , Yuan Yuan , Mengfei Wang , Shihao Zheng , Wei Wang , Ping Yang , Mu Li , Weifeng Lv

A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md, by either manually or automatically generating them. Although this practice is strongly encouraged by agent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Thibaud Gloaguen , Niels Mündler , Mark Müller , Veselin Raychev , Martin Vechev

As a codebase expands over time, its library dependencies can become outdated and require updates to maintain innovation and security. However, updating a library can introduce breaking changes in the code, necessitating significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Vali Tawosi , Salwa Alamir , Xiaomo Liu , Manuela Veloso

Automated code documentation is essential for modern software development, providing the contextual grounding that both human developers and coding agents rely on to navigate large codebases. Existing repository-level approaches process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Suyoung Bae , Jaehoon Lee , Changkyu Choi , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Real bug fixes found in open source repositories seem to be the perfect source for learning to localize and repair real bugs. However, the absence of large scale bug fix collections has made it difficult to effectively exploit real bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in code generation yet struggle with modern AI software engineering tasks. Unlike traditional function-level or file-level coding tasks, AI software engineering requires not only basic coding proficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Siru Ouyang , Wenhao Yu , Kaixin Ma , Zilin Xiao , Zhihan Zhang , Mengzhao Jia , Jiawei Han , Hongming Zhang , Dong Yu

This demonstration paper presents CMind, an artificial intelligence agent for localizing C memory bugs. The novel aspect to CMind is that it follows steps that we observed human programmers perform during empirical study of those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Chia-Yi Su , Collin McMillan

Rigorous software testing is crucial for developing and maintaining high-quality code, making automated test generation a promising avenue for both improving software quality and boosting the effectiveness of code generation methods.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Niels Mündler , Mark Niklas Müller , Jingxuan He , Martin Vechev

The evolution of AI coding agents has shifted the frontier from simple snippet completion to autonomous repository-level engineering. However, evaluating these agents remains ill-posed in general code repository generation, where the lack…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xuefeng Li , Nir Ben-Israel , Yotam Raz , Belal Ahmed , Doron Serebro , Antoine Raux