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Autonomous AI agents are transforming software development and redefining how developers collaborate with AI. Prior research shows that the adoption and use of AI-powered tools differ between core and peripheral developers. However, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Shamse Tasnim Cynthia , Joy Krishan Das , Banani Roy

Recent years have experienced growing contributions of AI coding agents that assist human developers in various software engineering tasks. However, this growing AI-assisted autonomy raises questions about security and trust. In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Md Fazle Rabbi , Asif K. Turzo , Arifa I. Champa , Minhaz F. Zibran

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly automate software engineering tasks. While recent studies highlight the accelerated adoption of ``AI as a teammate'' in Open Source Software (OSS), developer interaction patterns remain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haoyu Gao , Peerachai Banyongrakkul , Hao Guan , Mansooreh Zahedi , Christoph Treude

In recent years, AI-based software engineering has progressed from pre-trained models to advanced agentic workflows, with Software Development Agents representing the next major leap. These agents, capable of reasoning, planning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhi Chen , Lingxiao Jiang

In pull-based development systems, code reviews and pull request comments play important roles in improving code quality. In such systems, reviewers attempt to carefully check a piece of code by different unit tests. Unfortunately,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-20 F. Khoshnoud , A. Rezaei Nasab , Z. Toudeji , A. Sami

Pull Requests (PRs) are central to collaborative coding, summarizing code changes for reviewers. However, many PR descriptions are incomplete, uninformative, or have out-of-context content, compromising developer workflows and hindering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kutay Tire , Berk Çakar , Eray Tüzün

Existing datasets for coding agents evaluate performance on isolated, single pull request (PR) tasks in a stateless manner, failing to capture the reality of real-world software development where code changes accumulate, technical debt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 KN Ajay Shastry , Ganesh Senrayan , Shrey Satapara , Pranoy Panda , Chaitanya Devaguptapu

Coding agents are becoming increasingly capable of completing end-to-end software engineering workflows that previously required a human developer, including raising pull requests (PRs) to propose their changes. However, we still know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Lukas Twist , Jie M. Zhang

AI coding agents are increasingly contributing to software development, yet their impact on mobile development has received little empirical attention. In this paper, we present the first category-level empirical study of agent-generated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Muhammad Ahmad Khan , Hasnain Ali , Muneeb Rana , Muhammad Saqib Ilyas , Abdul Ali Bangash

As AI coding agents evolve from autocomplete tools to autonomous "AI workforce" teammates, they introduce a critical new bottleneck: human maintainers must now manage complex interaction loops rather than just reviewing code. Analyzing…

Agentic coding -- software development workflows in which autonomous coding agents plan, implement, and submit code changes with minimal human involvement -- is rapidly gaining traction. Prior work has shown that Pull Requests (PRs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sota Nakashima , Yuta Ishimoto , Masanari Kondo , Shane Mclntosh , Yasutaka Kamei

Autonomous coding agents are reshaping software development by creating pull requests (PRs) on GitHub, referred to as agentic PRs. In parallel, the review process is also becoming autonomous, thereby making reviewer bots key actors in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Syeda Kaneez Fatima , Yousuf Abrar , Abdul Rehman Tahir , Amelia Nawaz , Shamsa Abid , Abdul Ali Bangash

Performance optimization is a critical yet challenging aspect of software development, often requiring a deep understanding of system behavior, algorithmic tradeoffs, and careful code modifications. Although recent advances in AI coding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huiyun Peng , Antonio Zhong , Ricardo Andrés Calvo Méndez , Kelechi G. Kalu , James C. Davis

AI coding agents are rapidly transforming software engineering by performing tasks such as feature development, debugging, and testing. Despite their growing impact, the research community lacks a comprehensive dataset capturing how these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hao Li , Haoxiang Zhang , Ahmed E. Hassan

AI-agents help developers in different coding tasks, such as developing new features, fixing bugs, and reviewing code. Developers can write a Github issue and assign it to an AI-agent like Copilot for implementation. Based on the issue and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mohammed Sayagh

As Software Engineering enters its new era (SE 3.0), AI coding agents increasingly automate software development workflows. However, it remains unclear how exactly these agents recognize and address software energy concerns-an issue growing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tanjum Motin Mitul , Md. Masud Mazumder , Md Nahidul Islam Opu , Shaiful Chowdhury

AI coding assistants are now widely used in software development. Software developers increasingly integrate AI-generated code into their codebases to improve productivity. Prior studies have shown that AI-generated code may contain code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yue Liu , Ratnadira Widyasari , Yanjie Zhao , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Junkai Chen , David Lo

Agent-based coding tools have transformed software development practices. Unlike prompt-based approaches that require developers to manually integrate generated code, these agent-based tools autonomously interact with repositories to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Suzuka Yoshimoto , Shun Fujita , Kosei Horikawa , Daniel Feitosa , Yutaro Kashiwa , Hajimu Iida

Readability models and tools have been proposed to measure the effort to read code. However, these models are not completely able to capture the quality improvements in code as perceived by developers. To investigate possible features for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Carlos Eduardo C. Dantas , Adriano M. Rocha , Marcelo A. Maia

We introduce SWE-PRBench, a benchmark of 350 pull requests with human-annotated ground truth for evaluating AI code review quality. Evaluated against an LLM-as-judge framework validated at kappa=0.75, 8 frontier models detect only 15-31% of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Deepak Kumar