3 papers
cs.SE2025
Which Prompting Technique Should I Use? An Empirical Investigation of Prompting Techniques for Software Engineering Tasks
E. G. Santana, Gabriel Benjamin, Melissa Araujo +7
A growing variety of prompt engineering techniques has been proposed for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systematic evaluation of each technique on individual software engineerin…
cs.SE2025
Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories
Mahan Tafreshipour, Aaron Imani, Eric Huang +3
The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) is reshaping software development as developers integrate these LLMs into their applications. In such applications, prompts serve as th…
cs.SE2025
Test Smell: A Parasitic Energy Consumer in Software Testing
Md Rakib Hossain Misu, Jiawei Li, Adithya Bhattiprolu +3
Traditionally, energy efficiency research has focused on reducing energy consumption at the hardware level and, more recently, in the design and coding phases of the software devel…