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Agentic AI coding tools increasingly automate software development tasks. Developers can configure these tools through versioned repository-level artifacts such as Markdown and JSON files. We present a systematic analysis of configuration…

Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals. Existing industrial practices trade off speed and fidelity: online A/B testing takes weeks and risks user experience, shadow deployment yields signals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Smriti Jha , Matteo Paltenghi , Chandra Maddila , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Shubham Ugare , Satish Chandra

Recent advancements in Generative AI offer promising capabilities for spatial analysis. Despite their potential, the integration of generative AI with established GIS platforms remains underexplored. In this study, we propose a framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Temitope Akinboyewa , Zhenlong Li , Huan Ning , M. Naser Lessani

Visual documentation is an effective tool for reducing the cognitive barrier developers face when understanding unfamiliar code, enabling more intuitive comprehension. Compared to textual documentation, it provides a higher-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Luís F. Gomes , Xin Zhou , David Lo , Rui Abreu

Agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in the software industry, contributing code as collaborators or even autonomous developers. As their presence grows, it becomes important to assess the current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qixing Zhou , Jiacheng Zhang , Haiyang Wang , Rui Hao , Jiahe Wang , Minghao Han , Yuxue Yang , Shuzhe Wu , Feiyang Pan , Lue Fan , Dandan Tu , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Parametric Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of articulated assemblies is essential for product development, yet generating these multi-part, movable models from high-level descriptions remains unexplored. To address this, we propose ArtiCAD, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuan Shui , Yandong Guan , Zhanwei Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

Background: The artifacts used in Agile software testing and the reasons why these artifacts are used are fairly well-understood. However, empirical research on how Agile test artifacts are eventually designed in practice and which quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Jannik Fischbach , Henning Femmer , Daniel Mendez , Davide Fucci , Andreas Vogelsang

Architecture evaluation methods have been extensively used to evaluate software designs. Several evaluation methods have been proposed to analyze tradeoffs between different quality attributes. Also, having competing qualities leads to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Rafael Capilla , Jorge Andrés Díaz-Pace , Yamid Ramírez , Jennifer Pérez , Vanessa Rodríguez-Horcajo

Computer end users have spent billions of hours completing daily tasks like tabular data processing and project timeline scheduling. Most of these tasks are repetitive and error-prone, yet most end users lack the skill to automate these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hongxin Li , Jingran Su , Yuntao Chen , Qing Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Artefacts play a vital role in software and systems development processes. Other terms like documents, deliverables, or work products are widely used in software development communities instead of the term artefact. In the following, we use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-08 D. Méndez Fernández , W. Böhm , A. Vogelsang , J. Mund , M. Broy , M. Kuhrmann , T. Weyer

The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence(AI) programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot introduces new challenges in how these software tools address human needs. Many existing evaluation frameworks address technical aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Soroush Heydari

AI coding agents spend a substantial fraction of their tool calls on undirected codebase exploration. We investigate whether providing agents with formal architecture descriptors can reduce this navigational overhead. We present three…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruoqi Jin

Background: Large language models are typically evaluated as models, benchmarks, or short conversational episodes. Less is known about what happens when an agent is embedded persistently in a real academic research environment with durable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anas H. Alzahrani

Vibe coding produces correct, executable code at speed, but leaves no record of the structural commitments, dependencies, or evidence behind it. Reviewers cannot determine what invariants were assumed, what changed, or why a regression…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianfu Wang , Zhezheng Hao , Yin Wu , Wei Wu , Qiang Lin , Hande Dong , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Hui Xiong

As autonomous code agents move toward end-to-end software development, evaluating their practical autonomy becomes critical. Current benchmarks hide friction by testing agents in pre-configured environments, and their static evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hao Guan , Lingyue Fu , Shao Zhang , Yaoming Zhu , Kangning Zhang , Lin Qiu , Xunliang Cai , Xuezhi Cao , Weiwen Liu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Agentic systems have recently emerged as state-of-the-art approaches for automated theorem proving in formal mathematics. To assess how far these capabilities extend to program verification, we evaluate Claude Code in an agentic proving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Alessandro Sosso , Akhil Arora , Bas Spitters

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents adopt an end-to-end paradigm that maps a screenshot to an action sequence, thereby automating repetitive tasks in virtual environments. However, existing GUI agents are evaluated almost exclusively on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Chunyi Li , Longfei Li , Zicheng Zhang , Xiaohong Liu , Min Tang , Weisi Lin , Guangtao Zhai

Software engineering agents have shown significant promise in writing code. As AI agents permeate code writing, and generate huge volumes of code automatically -- the matter of code quality comes front and centre. As the automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuntong Zhang , Zhiyuan Pan , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Haifeng Ruan , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Abhik Roychoudhury

Agentic AI systems built on large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential for automating complex workflows, from software development to customer support. However, LLM agents often underperform due to suboptimal configurations;…

Recently, LLM agents have made rapid progress in improving their programming capabilities. However, existing benchmarks lack the ability to automatically evaluate from users' perspective, and also lack the explainability of the results of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kaiyuan Liu , Youcheng Pan , Yang Xiang , Daojing He , Jing Li , Yexing Du , Tianrun Gao