AI-Assisted Software Development

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AI-assisted software development studies how language models and coding agents can support work from requirements and design through implementation, testing, review, and maintenance. Common approaches include IDE code completion and chat, repository-aware retrieval, multi-step agents, and specification-driven workflows that use plans, tests, and architectural constraints to guide changes. Evaluation spans coding benchmarks and repository-level issue fixing, as well as real IDE traces, pull requests, static analysis, security checks, and fuzz testing. A central tension is that AI can speed up routine work while creating new costs in verification, security, maintainability, and developer understanding, so reliable use depends on effective feedback and human oversight.

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  1. CIAO - Code In Architecture Out - Automated Software Architecture Documentation with Large Language Models

    Apr 9, 2026Marco De Luca, Tiziano Santilli, Domenico Amalfitano +2Automated Software EngineeringAI-Assisted Software Development

    University of Naples Federico II Naples, Italy · University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark · Gran Sasso Science Institute L’Aquila, Italy

  2. Evaluating Repository-level Software Documentation via Question Answering and Feature-Driven Development

    Apr 8, 2026Xinchen Wang, Ruida Hu, Cuiyun Gao +2Software Engineering BenchmarksAI-Assisted Software Development

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Independent Researcher, China

  3. Nidus: Externalized Reasoning for AI-Assisted Engineering

    Apr 6, 2026Danil GorinevskiAI Agent GovernanceRuntime Enforcement for AI Agents

    cybiont GmbH, Schübelbach, Switzerland · cybiont GmbH, Kantonsstrasse 17, 8862 Schübelbach, Switzerland

  4. AgenticFlict: A Large-Scale Dataset of Merge Conflicts in AI Coding Agent Pull Requests on GitHub

    Apr 4, 2026Daniel Ogenrwot, John BusingeAI Coding AgentsAI-Assisted Software Development

    University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, USA

  5. AI-Assisted Unit Test Writing and Test-Driven Code Refactoring: A Case Study

    Apr 3, 2026Ema Smolic, Mario Brcic, Luka Hobor +1Automated Code RefactoringAI-Assisted Software Development

    It from Bit d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

  6. Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time

    Apr 1, 2026Razvan Mihai Popescu, David Gros, Andrei Botocan +3Mining Software RepositoriesCoding Agents

    Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · University of California, Davis, Davis, USA · GitHub, Denver, USA

  7. Unified Architecture Metamodel of Information Systems Developed by Generative AI

    Mar 31, 2026Oleg Grynets, Vasyl LyashkevychModel-Driven EngineeringSoftware Engineering

    EPAM Systems, McLean, Virginia, USA · EPAM Systems, Lviv, Ukraine

  8. IACDM: Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology -- A Structured Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development

    Mar 31, 2026Jasmine MoreiraAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentAI Coding Agents

  9. Factors Influencing the Quality of AI-Generated Code: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence

    Mar 26, 2026Vehid Geruslu, Zulfiyya Aliyeva, Eray TüzünAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentCode Generation Evaluation

    Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan · MilliSoft MMC Corporation, Baku, Azerbaijan +1

  10. The State of Generative AI in Software Development: Insights from Literature and a Developer Survey

    Mar 17, 2026Vincent Gurgul, Robin Gubela, Stefan LessmannGenerative AI AdoptionAI-Assisted Software Development

    Chair of Information Systems Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin · Chair of Information Systems Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin Treskowallee 8, 10318 Berlin · Bucharest University of Economic Studies 6 Piata Romana, 010374, Romania

  11. LLM-Augmented Release Intelligence: Automated Change Summarization and Impact Analysis in Cloud-Native CI/CD Pipelines

    Mar 15, 2026Happy BhatiSoftware EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

    Northeastern University

  12. "I'm Not Reading All of That": Understanding Software Engineers' Level of Cognitive Engagement with Agentic Coding Assistants

    Mar 15, 2026Carlos Rafael Catalan, Lheane Marie Dizon, Patricia Nicole Monderin +1AI Coding AgentsHuman-AI Interaction

    York University Toronto, Canada

  13. Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Innovation in Software Engineering

    Mar 11, 2026Carlos Alberto Fernández-y-Fernández, Jorge R. Aguilar-CisnerosAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

    Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca Oaxaca, México · Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación (SECIHTI-Puebla) & UPAEP University, Puebla, Pue., México

  14. Quality-Driven Agentic Reasoning for LLM-Assisted Software Design: Questions-of-Thoughts (QoT) as a Time-Series Self-QA Chain

    Mar 10, 2026Yen-Ku Liu, Yun-Cheng TsaiAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

    Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

  15. Eyla: Toward an Identity-Anchored LLM Architecture with Integrated Biological Priors -- Vision, Implementation Attempt, and Lessons from AI-Assisted Development

    Mar 9, 2026Arif AdittoLanguage ModelingAI-Assisted Software Development

    Independent Researcher, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  16. Human-Certified Module Repositories for the AI Age

    Mar 3, 2026Szilárd EnyediSoftware EngineeringSoftware Supply Chain Security

    Automation Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  17. Carbon-Aware Governance Gates: An Architecture for Sustainable GenAI Development

    Feb 23, 2026Mateen A. Abbasi, Tommi J. Mikkonen, Petri J. Ihantola +3Carbon-Aware ComputingAI Governance

    University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland · Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

  18. When AI Teammates Meet Code Review: Collaboration Signals Shaping the Integration of Agent-Authored Pull Requests

    Feb 23, 2026Costain Nachuma, Minhaz ZibranAI Coding AgentsAI-Assisted Software Development

    Idaho State University, USA

  19. Declarative by Design, Assistable Only by Convention: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Frameworks for AI-Assistability

    Feb 3, 2026Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, Sourabh DeshpandeAI Agent BenchmarksCode Generation Evaluation

    Center for Advanced AI, Accenture · Mountain View, California, USA