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Recent advances in coding agents suggest rapid progress toward autonomous software development, yet existing benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate the long-horizon capabilities required to build complete software systems. Most prior…

AI coding agents are increasingly integrated into modern software engineering workflows, actively collaborating with human developers to create pull requests (PRs) in open-source repositories. Although coding agents improve developer…

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AI coding agents can autonomously generate pull requests (PRs), yet little is known about how their contributions compare to those of humans. We analyze 33,596 agent-generated PRs (APRs) and 6,618 human PRs (HPRs) to compare code-change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dung Pham , Taher A. Ghaleb

Recent advances in coding agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution. In practice, real-world issues are typically bug fixes or feature requests in which human developers naturally incorporate refactoring as part of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhao Tian , Zifan Zhang , Tao Xiao , Dong Wang , Masanari Kondo , Junjie Chen , Yasutaka Kamei

Code review is an effective software quality assurance activity; however, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming. Thus, a number of generation-based automatic code review (ACR) approaches have been proposed recently, which leverage deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xin Zhou , Kisub Kim , Bowen Xu , DongGyun Han , Junda He , David Lo

In the field of software engineering, there has been a shift towards utilizing various artificial intelligence techniques to address challenges and create innovative tools. These solutions are aimed at enhancing efficiency, automating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Oussama Ben Sghaier , Jean-Sebastien Boudrias , Houari Sahraoui

The sprint-based iterative approach in the Agile software development method allows continuous feedback and adaptation. One of the crucial Agile software development activities is the sprint planning session where developers estimate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Lamyea Maha , Tajmilur Rahman , Chanchal Roy

As LLM-based agents exhibit exceptional capabilities in addressing complex problems, there is a growing focus on developing coding agents to tackle increasingly sophisticated tasks. Despite their promising performance, these coding agents…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shou Li , Andrey Kan , Laurent Callot , Bhavana Bhasker , Muhammad Shihab Rashid , Timothy B Esler

Program representation learning is a fundamental task in software engineering applications. With the availability of "big code" and the development of deep learning techniques, various program representation learning models have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Siqi Han , DongXia Wang , Wanting Li , Xuesong Lu

Reports of poor work well-being and fluctuating productivity in software engineering have been reported in both academic and popular sources. Understanding and predicting these issues through repository analysis might help manage software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Miikka Kuutila , Mika Mäntylä , Maëlick , Claes , Marko Elovainio , Bram Adams

As software engineering moves toward SE3.0, AI agents are increasingly used to carry out development tasks and contribute changes to software projects. It is therefore important to understand the extent of these contributions and how human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kazuma Yamasaki , Joseph Ayobami Joshua , Tasha Settewong , Mahmoud Alfadel , Kazumasa Shimari , Kenichi Matsumoto

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable code-generation ability, they still struggle with complex tasks. In real-world software development, humans usually tackle complex tasks through collaborative teamwork, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

Despite rapid development, large language models (LLMs) still encounter challenges in multi-turn decision-making tasks (i.e., agent tasks) like web shopping and browser navigation, which require making a sequence of intelligent decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhiheng Xi , Chenyang Liao , Guanyu Li , Yajie Yang , Wenxiang Chen , Zhihao Zhang , Binghai Wang , Senjie Jin , Yuhao Zhou , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Tao Ji , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

In domain-specific applications, GPT-4, augmented with precise prompts or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), shows notable potential but faces the critical tri-lemma of performance, cost, and data privacy. High performance requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yiying Wang , Xiaojing Li , Binzhu Wang , Yueyang Zhou , Yingru Lin , Han Ji , Hong Chen , Jinshi Zhang , Fei Yu , Zewei Zhao , Song Jin , Renji Gong , Wanqing Xu

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support scientific research, and recent benchmarks report progress in code repair and autonomous experimentation. However, these evaluations typically assume a pre-configured execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yubang Wang , Chenxi Zhang , Bowen Chen , Zezheng Huai , Zihao Dai , Xinchi Chen , Yuxin Wang , Yining Zheng , Jingjing Gong , Xipeng Qiu

Large language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in individual software engineering tasks, yet most autonomous systems still treat issue resolution as a monolithic or pipeline-based process. In contrast, real-world software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nikita Benkovich , Vitalii Valkov

Automated Program Repair (APR) agents leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to autonomously diagnose and fix software bugs through reasoning, planning, and tool use. Despite impressive leaderboard gains on benchmarks such as SWE-bench,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ira Ceka , Hailie Mitchell , Saurabh Pujar , Luca Buratti , Shyam Ramji , Junfeng Yang , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

AI agents are AI systems that can achieve complex goals autonomously. Assessing the level of agent autonomy is crucial for understanding both their potential benefits and risks. Current assessments of autonomy often focus on specific risks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Peter Cihon , Merlin Stein , Gagan Bansal , Sam Manning , Kevin Xu

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

The emergence of "vibe coding" platforms, where users describe applications in natural language and AI agents autonomously generate full-stack software, has created a need for rigorous evaluation beyond code-level benchmarks. In order to…

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