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  1. EngiWorld: What Can Frontier Agents Deliver in Professional Engineering Environments?

    Sep 29, 2026Hongcheng Gao, Hailong Qu, Yu Lei +19EngineeringSoftware Engineering

    Tsinghua University · Zhiman Inc. · Chongqing University +8

  2. Towards an AI Software Factory for Data Systems

    Sep 28, 2026Anna Pavlenko, Bogdan Crivat, Brandon Haynes +23Software EngineeringAi-Based

    Microsoft · University of Wisconsin-Madison · GitHub

  3. Counterfactual Rollout Replay: Forkable Environments as Free Process Rewards for Software Engineering Agents

    Sep 27, 2026Yuanhao Li, Hongbo Wang, Xuhong Chen +2Counterfactual LearningSoftware Engineering

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  4. FIRE: Failure-Informed Runtime Engineering for Reliable Language-Model Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Nikita Agarwal, Nivedit JainRuntimeEngineering

    Failproof AI

  5. ProgramDistill: From Interactive Web Apps to Verifiable Reference-Guided SWE Tasks

    Sep 16, 2026Jeonghye Kim, Minseon Kim, Young Jin Kim +5Coding AgentsSoftware Engineering

    KAIST · Microsoft Research Montréal · Microsoft AI

  6. Agent-Integrated Software: Interaction Contracts and Continuous Assurance

    Sep 12, 2026Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu ChenContractsSoftware Engineering

    Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  7. The Vibe Shift in Software Engineering: Evaluating AI-Led Conversational Programming for Performance, Cognition, and Responsible Adoption

    Sep 10, 2026Sales G. Aribe Jr., Louie Jay S. LabastidaVibe CodingSoftware Engineering

    Information Technology Department, Bukidnon State University, Malaybalay City, Philippines

  8. It Is Not My Code Anymore

    Sep 8, 2026Augusto CamargoSoftware EngineeringEngineering

    Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (IME) University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  9. The Psychological Costs of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Software Engineering

    Sep 3, 2026Adam Alami, Elda Paja, Abhishek TiwariSoftware EngineeringArtificial Intelligence Systems

    University of Southern Denmark, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark · IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark · University of Southern Denmark, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Odense, Denmark

  10. Efficient SWE Agent Benchmarking via Trajectory-Aware Evaluation

    Sep 1, 2026Kefeng Duan, Dewu Zheng, Yanlin Wang +7Swe-Bench VerifiedSoftware Engineering

    School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China · Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd., China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  11. What Does an Agentic Software Engineering Benchmark Measure? Profiling Task Demands and Agent Behaviour Beyond What Category Labels Reveal

    Sep 1, 2026Radin Shayanfar, Keheliya Gallaba, Ahmed E. HassanSoftware EngineeringAgentic Benchmarks

    Queen’s University

  12. WiseSpec: Requirements-Driven Agents for Code Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Zhao TianCode GenerationSoftware Engineering

    School of Computer Software, Tianjin University Tianjin, China

  13. Recursive Criticality of AI Self-Improvement

    Aug 31, 2026Mikhail BurtsevRecursive Self-ImprovementArtificial Intelligence Research

    London Institute for Mathematical Sciences

  14. On the Prospects of Dynamic LLM Conversations in Software Development

    Aug 31, 2026Annemarie Wittig, Alina Mailach, Janet Siegmund +1Multi-Turn Large Language Model ConversationsSoftware Engineering

    Leipzig, Leipzig University, Leipzig, 04109, Germany · Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, 09107, Germany · ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University, Leipzig, 04109, Germany

  15. SWE-bench Science: Can Coding Agents Resolve Engineering Tasks in Science?

    Aug 20, 2026Zhipeng Xu, Jiahao Lu, Yining Zheng +2Swe-Bench VerifiedSoftware Engineering

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University

  16. Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent

    Aug 10, 2026Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Junyang Xing +3Graphical User Interface AgentsSoftware Engineering

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · Technical University of Munich, Germany

  17. Towards Assurance Closure in AI-Native Large-Scale Agile Software Development

    Aug 7, 2026Ricardo BrittoAi-NativeSoftware Engineering

    Ericsson, Sweden · Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

  18. AgentForge: An Immersive Role-Playing Platform for Learning Agentic Software Engineering

    Aug 4, 2026Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Yu HuangSoftware EngineeringSoftware

    Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  19. Fail-Fast, Restart-Smart: Early Failure Prediction and Restart for SWE Agentic Tasks

    Aug 4, 2026Chenyu Wang, Yunbo Lyu, Junda He +4RetryingSwe-Bench Verified

    Singapore Management University · University of Alberta · Nanjing University of Science and Technology +1

  20. Post-Training on Office Work Improves Software Engineering: A Behavioral Account of Cross-Domain Transfer

    Aug 3, 2026Logan Ritchie, Sushant Mehta, Liudas Panavas +1Post-TrainingSoftware Engineering

    Surge AI

  21. Distilling Reasoning Traces into Advisory Prompts for Software Engineering Tasks

    Aug 1, 2026Faizan Faisal, Prem Devanbu, Toufique AhmedAi-Assisted Programming TasksSoftware Engineering

    University of California, Davis · IBM

  22. Transpiler Autotuning with Predictive Models for Quantum Circuit Optimization

    Jul 31, 2026Piotr Malkowski, Domenik Eichhorn, Joshua Ammermann +4Quantum CircuitsQubit

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Germany

  23. Authoring Agent Skills: A Software-Engineering Approach

    Jul 27, 2026Giuseppe DestefanisReusable Agent SkillsSkills

    Department of Computer Science, University College London

  24. How Do AI Coding Agents Contribute to Software Development? an Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests

    Jul 23, 2026Iren Mazloomzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Morovati, Foutse KhomhPull RequestsSoftware Engineering

    Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

  25. Analyzing Curricular Pattern Complexity Using AI to Improve On-Time Graduation Rates

    Jul 14, 2026Lynn Vonderhaar, Juan Couder, Siri Siqveland +2CurriculumSoftware Engineering

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, USA · Department of Engineering Fundamentals Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, USA

  26. How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study

    Jul 12, 2026Yunbo Lyu, David Williams, Jieke Shi +5Software EngineeringCoding Agents

    Singapore Management University, Singapore · University College London, UK · Tencent, China +2

  27. Inside the Skill Market: From Software Engineering Activities to Reusable Agent Skills

    Jul 10, 2026Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen +3Software EngineeringAgent Skill Retrieval

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  28. Aleena: Alignment Agent for Research Software Engineering Collaborations

    Jul 9, 2026Kshitij Dani, Cordero Core, Landung Setiawan +4Software EngineeringStakeholders

    eScience Institute University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA · eScience Institute University of Washington Seattle, Washington 많은 USA

  29. The Memory Wall of Green Software: Empirical Energy Evaluation of Memento Design Pattern

    Jul 8, 2026Imane Jriri, Tarik Houichime, Younes El AmraniPeak MemorySoftware Engineering

    LRIT, Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University In Rabat, Rabat, 10112, Morocco · Meridian Team, LyRICA Laboratory, School of Information Sciences, Rabat 10100, Morocco

  30. Reliable and Developer-Aligned Evaluation of Agents for Software Engineering

    Jul 7, 2026Razvan Mihai PopescuAgentic EvaluationsSoftware Engineering

    Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands

  31. Prompt Coach: An Empirical Evaluation of an Agentic Tutor for Learning Prompt Engineering in Software Development

    Jul 7, 2026Rohit Mehra, Kapil Singi, Vikrant Kaulgud +5TutorsSoftware Engineering

    Accenture Labs, India · Accenture, India · Accenture, USA

  32. Do It Right! A Methodology for Successful NLP System Development

    Jul 6, 2026Olga V. Patterson, Brett South, T. Elizabeth Workman +1Natural Language ProcessingMethodology

    a[Affiliation placeholder]

  33. Three-Phase Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Development Life Cycle

    Jul 6, 2026Joshua Strubel, Professor Carrie Russell, Carson Crockett +4Software EngineeringCognitive Load

    Dr. Joshua Strübel, Professor Carrie Russell, Carson Crockett, Jason Ferraro, Nathan Londhe, Uzayr Syed, and Jacob Viehe

  34. Don't Blame the Large Language Model: How Scaffolding Evolution Shapes Coding Agent Quality

    Jul 4, 2026Oussama Ben Sghaier, Hao Li, Bram Adams +1Coding AgentsSoftware Engineering

    Queen’s University, Canada

  35. An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in Code Repositories

    Jul 2, 2026Yongyi Ji, Jiaji Wang, Yi Zhou +2Code QualityCode Generation

    School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

  36. Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering

    Jul 1, 2026James C. Davis, Paschal C. Amusuo, Tanmay Singla +2Software EngineeringCoding Agents

    Purdue University

  37. SWE-Router: Routing in Multi-turn Agentic Software Engineering Tasks

    Jun 30, 2026Seongho Son, Sangwoong Yoon, Jiahua Tang +3Large Language Model RoutingSoftware Engineering

    University College London, United Kingdom · Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea · PSL Research University, France +1

  38. SWE-INTERACT: Reimagining SWE Benchmarks as User-Driven Long-Horizon Coding Sessions

    Jun 29, 2026Mohit Raghavendra, Anisha Gunjal, Aakash Sabharwal +1Software EngineeringCoding Agents

    1Scale AI

  39. Reasoning Beyond Prediction: From Data-Driven to Causal Software Engineering

    Jun 26, 2026Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano RussoSoftware EngineeringSoftware

    University of Naples Federico II, Italy

  40. The Spec Growth Engine: Spec-Anchored, Code-Coupled, Drift-Enforced Architecture for AI-Assisted Software Development

    Jun 25, 2026Hartwig GrabowskiSoftware EngineeringCoding Agents

    Hochschule Offenburg

  41. Towards Evaluation of Implicit Software World Models in Coding LLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav ZharovSoftware EngineeringSwe-Bench Verified

    1JetBrains Research

  42. Digital Humanism and Evolutionary Design

    Jun 22, 2026Wolfgang HöhlSoftware Engineering

    Technical University of Munich (TUM) School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) München, Germany, EU

  43. RigorBench: Benchmarking Engineering Process Discipline in Autonomous AI Coding Agents

    Jun 21, 2026Meher Bhaskar Madiraju, Meher Sai Preetam MadirajuCoding AgentsSoftware Engineering

  44. Skills for the future software profession: beyond agentic AI!

    Jun 20, 2026Abhik Roychoudhury, Sungmin Kang, Baishakhi RaySoftware EngineeringCoding Agents

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · Columbia University, USA

  45. Position: Coding Benchmarks Are Misaligned with Agentic Software Engineering

    Jun 16, 2026Maria I. Gorinova, Macey Baker, Amy Heineike +3Coding AgentsSoftware Engineering

    Tessl London, UK

  46. Vibe Coding Ate My Homework: An evaluation of AI approaches to greenfield software engineering and programming

    Jun 15, 2026Callum BarbourVibe CodingAi-Assisted Programming Tasks

  47. PromptMN: Pseudo Prompting Language

    Jun 15, 2026Enkhzol DovdonPrompt EngineeringSoftware Engineering

    ICT Group

  48. Beyond Models: Reflections on Engineering AI-enabled Systems in a Project-Based Course

    Jun 15, 2026Amir Mashmool, Kishan Ravindra Sawant, Mojtaba Shahin +2Software EngineeringEngineering

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany · School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  49. Open-SWE-Traces: Advancing Dual-Mode Multilingual Distillation for Software Engineering Agents

    Jun 14, 2026Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Nikolai Ludwig, Somshubra Majumdar +1Software EngineeringSoftware

    NVIDIA

  50. Dialogue SWE-Bench: A Benchmark for Dialogue-Driven Coding Agents

    Jun 12, 2026Brendan King, Jeffrey FlaniganCoding AgentsSwe-Bench Verified

    University of California, Santa Cruz

  51. Toward Instructions-as-Code: Understanding the Impact of Instruction Files on Agentic Pull Requests

    Jun 11, 2026Ali Arabat, Mohammed SayaghPull RequestsCoding Agents

    École de Technologie Supérieure Montréal, Canada

  52. Context Rot in AI-Assisted Software Development: Repurposing Documentation Consistency for AI Configuration Artifacts

    Jun 8, 2026Christoph Treude, Sebastian BaltesCode QualityDocumentation

    Singapore Management University · Singapore, Singapore · Heidelberg University +1

  53. Impacts of Histories and Models on LLM Grading: A Study in Advanced Software Engineering Courses

    Jun 7, 2026Qilin Zhou, Zhuo Wang, Yue Li +1GradingSoftware Engineering

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  54. Jas: AI-Paired Engineering as a Revival of N-Version Programming

    Jun 5, 2026Jason HickeySoftware EngineeringAi-Native

    Independent

  55. Human Oversight and Overload: Two Hidden and Costly Burdens of AI-Assisted Software Engineering

    Jun 4, 2026Vahid GarousiSoftware EngineeringCognitive Load

    Queen’s University Belfast, UK · Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan

  56. Enhancing Software Engineering Through Closed-Loop Memory Optimization

    Jun 4, 2026Xuehang Guo, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Qingyun Wang +2Software EngineeringSoftware

    1William & Mary · 2Carnegie Mellon University · 3OpenHands +1

  57. Agentic Software: How AI Agents Are Restructuring the Software Paradigm

    Jun 4, 2026Zhenfeng CaoSoftware EngineeringProduction Agentic Systems

    Lingxi Intelligent Investment (Shenzhen) Development Co., Ltd.

  58. From Prompt to Process: a Process Taxonomy and Comparative Assessment of Frameworks Supporting AI Software Development Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Sanderson Oliveira de MacedoSoftware EngineeringTaxonomy

    Federal Institute of Goias

  59. SPOQ: Specialist Orchestrated Queuing for Multi-Agent Software Engineering

    Jun 2, 2026Royce Carbowitz, Dheeraj KumarMulti-Agent OrchestrationSoftware Engineering

    Pinpoint Technologies LLC

  60. ASE-26: a curriculum for agentic software engineering as a discipline

    May 31, 2026Mikael GorskySoftware EngineeringCoding Agents

    Holon Institute of Technology