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  1. The Conversations Beneath the Code: Triadic Data for Long-Horizon Software Engineering Agents

    May 4, 2026Yelin KimSoftware Engineering AgentsHuman-AI Interaction

    Independent Researcher

  2. Practical Limits of Autonomous Test Repair: A Multi-Agent Case Study with LLM-Driven Discovery and Self-Correction

    May 2, 2026Hyukjoo LeeAutomated Software TestingSoftware Engineering Agents

    Independent Researcher Republic of Korea

  3. Self-Evolving Software Agents

    Apr 29, 2026Marco Robol, Paolo GiorginiSoftware Engineering AgentsLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    University of Trento · Trento, Italy

  4. RAT: RunAnyThing via Fully Automated Environment Configuration

    Apr 25, 2026Renhong Huang, Dongdong Hua, Yifei Sun +4Software Engineering AgentsAutomated Software Engineering

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  5. Code Broker: A Multi-Agent System for Automated Code Quality Assessment

    Apr 25, 2026Samer AttrahMulti-Agent LLM SystemsSoftware Engineering Agents

    Independent researcher · California, USA

  6. Shift-Up: A Framework for Software Engineering Guardrails in AI-native Software Development -- Initial Findings

    Apr 22, 2026Petrus Lipsanen, Liisa Rannikko, François Christophe +3Software Engineering AgentsLLM Guardrails

    University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland

  7. Project Prometheus: Bridging the Intent Gap in Agentic Program Repair via Reverse-Engineered Executable Specifications

    Apr 19, 2026Yongchao Wang, Zhiqiu HuangSoftware Engineering AgentsAutomated Program Repair

    Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  8. The Semi-Executable Stack: Agentic Software Engineering and the Expanding Scope of SE

    Apr 16, 2026Robert Feldt, Per Lenberg, Julian Frattini +1Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden · Volvo Group, Gothenburg, Sweden

  9. Asking What Matters: Reward-Driven Clarification for Software Engineering Tasks

    Apr 16, 2026Sanidhya Vijayvargiya, Vijay Viswanathan, Graham NeubigSoftware Engineering AgentsClarification Question Generation

    Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  10. LinuxArena: A Control Setting for AI Agents in Live Production Software Environments

    Apr 16, 2026Tyler Tracy, Ram Potham, Nick Kuhn +31Software Engineering AgentsAI Agent Security

    Redwood Research · EquiStamp

  11. AnyPoC: Universal Proof-of-Concept Test Generation for Scalable LLM-Based Bug Detection

    Apr 13, 2026Zijie Zhao, Chenyuan Yang, Weidong Wang +3Automated Software TestingSoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

  12. ReCodeAgent: A Multi-agent Workflow for Language-Agnostic Translation and Validation of Large-Scale Repositories

    Apr 8, 2026Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Daniel Kroening +1Code TranslationSoftware Engineering Agents

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, USA · Amazon Arlington, VA, USA · Amazon Seattle, WA, USA

  13. Effective Strategies for Asynchronous Software Engineering Agents

    Mar 23, 2026Jiayi Geng, Graham NeubigMulti-Agent CoordinationSoftware Engineering Agents

    Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute

  14. A Dual-Helix Governance Approach Towards Reliable Agentic Artificial Intelligence for WebGIS Development

    Mar 4, 2026Boyuan Guan, Wencong Cui, Levente JuhaszSoftware Engineering AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Geographic Information Systems Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA · Geospatial Analytics, Technology and Open Research Lab, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

  15. GameDevBench: Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Through Game Development

    Feb 11, 2026Wayne Chi, Yixiong Fang, Arnav Yayavaram +8Software Engineering AgentsAgent Evaluation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

  16. Persuasion Propagation: Does Persuasion Change AI Agent Behavior?

    Jan 31, 2026Hyejun Jeong, Amir Houmansadr, Shlomo Zilberstein +1Persuasion in Language ModelsAI Agent Evaluation

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  17. 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

  18. BuildBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

    Sep 27, 2025Zehua Zhang, Ati Priya Bajaj, Divij Handa +14Software Engineering AgentsSoftware Engineering Benchmarks

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

  19. AgentPack: A Dataset of Code Changes, Co-Authored by Agents and Humans

    Sep 26, 2025Yangtian Zi, Zixuan Wu, Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki +2Software Engineering AgentsHuman-AI Collaboration

    Northeastern University Boston, MA, United States

  20. Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap

    Sep 7, 2025Ahmed E. Hassan, Hao Li, Dayi Lin +4Software Engineering AgentsAgentic Workflows

    Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada · Concordia University, Montreal, Canada · Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan +1

  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. Code Reasoning for Software Engineering Tasks: A Survey and A Call to Action

    Jun 16, 2025Saurabh Pujar, Ira Ceka, Irene Manotas +3Software Engineering AgentsExecution-Guided Code Generation

    IBM · Columbia University

  23. kAgent: An execution-guided crash resolution agent for the Linux kernel

    Apr 29, 2025Alex Mathai, Chenxi Huang, Suwei Ma +7Software Engineering AgentsAutomated Program Repair

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Google Inc., München, Germany · Google DeepMind, Mountain View, CA, USA +1

  24. Spec-Harness: Measuring and Improving Behavioral Adequacy of LLM-Synthesized Formal Specifications

    Date pendingMd Rakib Hossain Misu, Iris Ma, Cristina V. LopesSoftware Engineering AgentsLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine