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Large language models and agents have achieved remarkable progress in code generation. However, existing benchmarks focus on isolated function/class-level generation (e.g., ClassEval) or modifications to existing codebases (e.g.,…

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We present Code Broker, a multi agent system built on Google s Agent Development Kit ADK that analyses Python source code from individual files, local directory trees, or remote GitHub repositories and generates structured, actionable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Samer Attrah

Most repository-level code translation and validation techniques have been evaluated on a single source-target programming language (PL) pair, owing to the complex engineering effort required to adapt new PL pairs. Programming agents can…

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This paper presents a multi-stage reranking system for repository-level code search, which leverages the vastly available commit histories of large open-source repositories to aid in bug fixing. We define the task of repository-level code…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Siddharth Gandhi , Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

Developers often refactor source code to improve its quality during software development. A challenge in refactoring is to determine if it can be applied or not. To help with this decision-making process, we aim to search for past…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Motoki Abe , Shinpei Hayashi

Software engineering activities such as package migration, fixing errors reports from static analysis or testing, and adding type annotations or other specifications to a codebase, involve pervasively editing the entire repository of code.…

The escalating complexity of modern codebases has intensified the need for retrieval systems capable of interpreting cross-component change intents, a capability fundamentally absent in conventional function-level search paradigms. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Aofan Liu , Shiyuan Song , Haoxuan Li , Cehao Yang , Yiyan Qi

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have initiated a new era in repository-level code completion. However, the invariable use of retrieval in existing methods exposes issues in both efficiency and robustness, with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Di Wu , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Dejiao Zhang , Murali Krishna Ramanathan , Xiaofei Ma

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

Evaluation of repository-aware software engineering systems is often confounded by synthetic task design, prompt leakage, and temporal contamination between repository knowledge and future code changes. We present a time-consistent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xianpeng , Sun , Haonan Sun , Tian Yu , Sheng Ma , Qincheng Zhang , Lifei Rao , Chen Tian

Context: Software code reviews are an important part of the development process, leading to better software quality and reduced overall costs. However, finding appropriate code reviewers is a complex and time-consuming task. Goals: In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Jakub Lipcak , Bruno Rossi

Locating files and functions requiring modification in large software repositories is challenging due to their scale and structural complexity. Existing LLM-based methods typically treat this as a repository-level retrieval task and rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhaoxi Zhang , Yitong Duan , Yanzhi Zhang , Yiming Xu , Zhixiang Wang , Kun Liang , Weikang Li , Jiahui Liang , Deguo Xia , Jizhou Huang , Jiyan He , Yunfang Wu

Code review is considered a key process in the software industry for minimizing bugs and improving code quality. Inspection of review process effectiveness and continuous improvement can boost development productivity. Such inspection is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Saifullah Mahbub , Md. Easin Arafat , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman , Zannatul Ferdows , Masum Hasan

Repository summarization is a crucial research question in development and maintenance for software engineering. Existing repository summarization techniques primarily focus on summarizing code according to the directory tree, which is…

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Peer code review locates common coding standard violations and simple logical errors in the early phases of software development, and thus, reduces overall cost. Unfortunately, at GitHub, identifying an appropriate code reviewer for a pull…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Jesse Redl , Jason A. Collins

Large language models (LLMs) serve as an active and promising field of generative artificial intelligence and have demonstrated abilities to perform complex tasks in multiple domains, including mathematical and scientific reasoning. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ao Cheng , Lei Zhang , Guowei He

Peer code review locates common coding rule violations and simple logical errors in the early phases of software development, and thus reduces overall cost. However, in GitHub, identifying an appropriate code reviewer for a pull request is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Jason A. Collins

Identifying and addressing security issues during the early phase of the development lifecycle is critical for mitigating the long-term negative impacts on software systems. Code review serves as an effective practice that enables…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fang Liu , Simiao Liu , Yinghao Zhu , Xiaoli Lian , Li Zhang

Code ownership is central to ensuring accountability and maintaining quality in large-scale software development. Yet, as external threats such as software supply chain attacks on project health and quality assurance increase, mechanisms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Jai Lal Lulla , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Christoph Treude

Reusing code is a common practice in software development: It helps developers speedup the implementation task while also reducing the chances of introducing bugs, given the assumption that the reused code has been tested, possibly in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rosalia Tufano , Emad Aghajani , Gabriele Bavota