Automated Software Engineering

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Automated Software Engineering studies how to automate software work, from requirements analysis and design to coding, testing, maintenance, and deployment. Common approaches combine language-model agents with retrieval, static analysis, search-based methods, executable specifications, and test-driven feedback to resolve repository issues, refactor code, generate tests, or document systems. Researchers evaluate these systems on real repositories and task-specific benchmarks, measuring not just whether changes pass tests but also correctness, regressions, completeness, cost, and developer usefulness. Agents are increasingly capable, but long-horizon changes, architectural judgment, reliable verification, and the trade-off between autonomy and human oversight remain central challenges.

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  1. From SWE-ZERO to SWE-HERO: Execution-free to Execution-based Fine-tuning for Software Engineering Agents

    Apr 2, 2026Nikolai Ludwig, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Somshubra Majumdar +1Software Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Training

    NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA

  2. Automating Domain-Driven Design: Experience with a Prompting Framework

    Mar 27, 2026Tobias Eisenreich, Husein Jusic, Stefan WagnerSoftware EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

    Chair of Software Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Engineering Team, FTAPI Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

  3. The Kitchen Loop: User-Spec-Driven Development for a Self-Evolving Codebase

    Mar 26, 2026Yannick RoySoftware EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

  4. MobileDev-Bench: A Benchmark for Issue Resolution in Mobile Application Development

    Mar 26, 2026Moshood A. Fakorede, Krishna Upadhyay, A. B. Siddique +1Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Benchmarks

    Louisiana State University · University of Kentucky

  5. ReqFusion: A Multi-Provider Framework for Automated PEGS Analysis Across Software Domains

    Mar 24, 2026Muhammad Khalid, Manuel Oriol, Yilmaz UygunRequirements EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

    Constructor University Bremen, 28759 Bremen, Germany

  6. LLM-based Automated Architecture View Generation: Where Are We Now?

    Mar 22, 2026Miryala Sathvika, Rudra Dhar, Karthik VaidhyanathanSoftware EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

    Software Engineering Research Centre IIIT Hyderabad, India

  7. SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Software Engineering Tasks for Agents

    Mar 21, 2026Jiarong Liang, Zhiheng Lyu, Zijie Liu +4Automated Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Waterloo · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Independent

  8. Orchestrating Human-AI Software Delivery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Field Study of Three Software Modernization Programs

    Mar 20, 2026Maximiliano Armesto, Christophe KolbSoftware EngineeringHuman-AI Collaboration

    Taller Technologies

  9. Goedel-Code-Prover: Hierarchical Proof Search for Open State-of-the-Art Code Verification

    Mar 18, 2026Zenan Li, Ziran Yang, Deyuan He +7Formal VerificationAutomated Theorem Proving

    ETH Zürich · Princeton Language and Intelligence · Department of Computer Science, Princeton University +1

  10. 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

  11. Resolving Java Code Repository Issues with iSWE Agent

    Mar 11, 2026Jatin Ganhotra, Sami Serhan, Antonio Abu Nassar +3Software Engineering AgentsAutomated Software Engineering

    IBM

  12. 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

  13. RepoLaunch: Automating Build and Management of Code Repositories across Languages and Platforms

    Mar 5, 2026Kenan Li, Rongzhi Li, Linghao Zhang +17Automated Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering

    Microsoft

  14. CodeTaste: Can LLMs Generate Human-Level Code Refactorings?

    Mar 4, 2026Alex Thillen, Niels Mündler, Veselin Raychev +1Automated Code RefactoringAutomated Software Engineering

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich · LogicStar.ai, Zurich, Switzerland

  15. Utilizing LLMs for Industrial Process Automation

    Feb 26, 2026Salim FaresIndustrial AutomationAutomated Software Engineering

    University of Passau, Passau, Germany

  16. Agile V: A Compliance-Ready Framework for AI-Augmented Engineering -- From Concept to Audit-Ready Delivery

    Feb 24, 2026Christopher Koch, Joshua Andreas WellbrockAgentic WorkflowsAutomated Software Engineering

    Agile-V.org Germany

  17. Automated Multi-Source Debugging and Natural Language Error Explanation for Dashboard Applications

    Feb 17, 2026Devendra Tata, Mona RajhansFault DiagnosisAutomated Software Engineering

    Palo Alto Networks

  18. Automated Classification of Source Code Changes Based on Metrics Clustering in the Software Development Process

    Feb 16, 2026Evgenii KniazevClassificationAutomated Software Engineering

    Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), Saint Petersburg, Russia

  19. SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?

    Nov 8, 2025Jeffrey Jian Ma, Milad Hashemi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh +5Software Engineering AgentsBenchmark Design

    Harvard University · Google DeepMind · Princeton University +2

  20. RAG4Tickets: AI-Powered Ticket Resolution via Retrieval-Augmented Generation on JIRA and GitHub Data

    Oct 9, 2025Mohammad BaqarSoftware EngineeringAutomated Software Engineering

    Cisco Systems Inc, CA, USA

  21. LLM-Driven Collaborative Model for Untangling Commits via Explicit and Implicit Dependency Reasoning

    Jul 22, 2025Bo Hou, Xin Tan, Kai Zheng +3Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    State Key Laboratory of Complex & Critical Software Environment (SKLCCSE), School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · SKLCCSE, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  22. Search-Based Software Engineering and AI Foundation Models: Current Landscape and Future Roadmap

    May 26, 2025Hassan Sartaj, Shaukat Ali, Paolo Arcaini +1Software EngineeringLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Simula Research Laboratory Oslo, Norway · National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan · Kristiania University of Applied Sciences and Oslo Metropolitan University Oslo, Norway