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cs.SE2025

From Challenge to Change: Design Principles for AI Transformations

Theocharis Tavantzis, Stefano Lambiase, Daniel Russo +1

The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping Software Engineering (SE), creating new opportunities while introducing human-centered challenges. Although prior work n…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Large Language Models in Thematic Analysis: Prompt Engineering, Evaluation, and Guidelines for Qualitative Software Engineering Research

Cristina Martinez Montes, Robert Feldt, Cristina Miguel Martos +3

As artificial intelligence advances, large language models (LLMs) are entering qualitative research workflows, yet no reproducible methods exist for integrating them into establish…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Clotho: Measuring Task-Specific Pre-Generation Test Adequacy for LLM Inputs

Juyeon Yoon, Somin Kim, Robert Feldt +1

Software increasingly relies on the emergent capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), from natural language understanding to program analysis and generation. Yet testing them…

cs.SE2025

SETBVE: Quality-Diversity Driven Exploration of Software Boundary Behaviors

Sabinakhon Akbarova, Felix Dobslaw, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto +1

Software systems exhibit distinct behaviors based on input characteristics, and failures often occur at the boundaries between input domains. Traditional Boundary Value Analysis (B…

cs.SE2025

Cross-Functional AI Task Forces (X-FAITs) for AI Transformation of Software Organizations

Lucas Gren, Robert Feldt

This experience report introduces the Cross-Functional AI Task Force (X-FAIT) framework to bridge the gap between strategic AI ambitions and operational execution within software-i…

cs.SE2025

Capturing Semantic Flow of ML-based Systems

Shin Yoo, Robert Feldt, Somin Kim +1

ML-based systems are software systems that incorporates machine learning components such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) or Large Language Models (LLMs). While such systems enable a…

cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

Challenges in Testing Large Language Model Based Software: A Faceted Taxonomy

Felix Dobslaw, Robert Feldt, Juyeon Yoon +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-Agent LLMs (MALLMs) introduce non-determinism unlike traditional or machine learning software, requiring new approaches to verifying correctn…

cs.SE2025★ 6 cited

Qualitative Research Methods in Software Engineering: Past, Present, and Future

Carolyn Seaman, Rashina Hoda, Robert Feldt

The paper entitled "Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering" by Carolyn Seaman was published in TSE in 1999. It has been chosen as one of the most influent…