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cs.SE2026

Understanding Agent-Reactive Bugs at the Model-Harness Boundary: An Empirical Study of LLM Agent Issue Reports

Jingyi Chen, Songqiang Chen, Hengcheng Zhu +3

LLM agents span command-line interfaces (e.g., Codex) and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain), integrating backend LLMs with harness code that parses model outputs, controls agent l…

cs.SE2026

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

Jialun Cao, Xinru Yan, Songqiang Chen +3

Software engineering (abbrev. SE) has continuously evolved through increasingly powerful forms of reuse, from source code and libraries to components and services. Recent advances…

cs.SE2026★ 1 cited

MR-Coupler: Automated Metamorphic Test Generation via Functional Coupling Analysis

Congying Xu, Hengcheng Zhu, Songqiang Chen +3

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a widely recognized technique for alleviating the oracle problem in software testing. However, its adoption is hindered by the difficulty of constructin…

cs.SE2026

CAM: A Causality-based Analysis Framework for Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems

Zongyi Lyu, Zhenlan Ji, Songqiang Chen +4

Despite the remarkable success that Multi-Agent Code Generation Systems (MACGS) have achieved, the inherent complexity of multi-agent architectures produces substantial volumes of…

cs.SE2025

Multi-Agent Systems for Dataset Adaptation in Software Engineering: Capabilities, Limitations, and Future Directions

Jingyi Chen, Xiaoyan Guo, Songqiang Chen +2

Automating the adaptation of software engineering (SE) research artifacts across datasets is essential for scalability and reproducibility, yet it remains largely unstudied. Recent…

cs.SE2025

LSPFuzz: Hunting Bugs in Language Servers

Hengcheng Zhu, Songqiang Chen, Valerio Terragni +4

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations fo…

cs.SE2025

Understanding and Bridging the Planner-Coder Gap: A Systematic Study on the Robustness of Multi-Agent Systems for Code Generation

Zongyi Lyu, Songqiang Chen, Zhenlan Ji +5

Multi-agent systems (MASs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for automated code generation, demonstrating impressive performance on established benchmarks. Despite their prosper…

cs.SE2025

Can Emulating Semantic Translation Help LLMs with Code Translation? A Study Based on Pseudocode

Songqiang Chen, Congying Xu, Jingyi Chen +3

Although large language models (LLMs) show promising potential in code translation, they still struggle to generate accurate translations using the commonly adopted direct code-to-…

cs.SE2025

RulER: Automated Rule-Based Semantic Error Localization and Repair for Code Translation

Shuo Jin, Songqiang Chen, Xiaoyuan Xie +1

Automated code translation aims to convert programs between different programming languages while maintaining their functionality. Due to the imperfections of code translation mode…

cs.SE2025

What Makes In-Context Examples Effective for Code Generation?

Dongze Li, Songqiang Chen, Jialun Cao +1

In-Context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the code generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating code examples inside the…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

When LLMs Meet API Documentation: Can Retrieval Augmentation Aid Code Generation Just as It Helps Developers?

Jingyi Chen, Songqiang Chen, Jialun Cao +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has increasingly shown its power in extending large language models' (LLMs') capability beyond their pre-trained knowledge. Existing works have…

cs.SE2025

Isolating Language-Coding from Problem-Solving: Benchmarking LLMs with PseudoEval

Jiarong Wu, Songqiang Chen, Jialun Cao +2

Existing code generation benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) such as HumanEval and MBPP are designed to study LLMs' end-to-end performance, where the benchmarks feed a prob…

cs.SE2024

CODECLEANER: Elevating Standards with A Robust Data Contamination Mitigation Toolkit

Jialun Cao, Songqiang Chen, Wuqi Zhang +2

Data contamination presents a critical barrier preventing widespread industrial adoption of advanced software engineering techniques that leverage code language models (CLMs). This…

cs.SE2024★ 8 cited

MR-Adopt: Automatic Deduction of Input Transformation Function for Metamorphic Testing

Congying Xu, Songqiang Chen, Jiarong Wu +4

While a recent study reveals that many developer-written test cases can encode a reusable Metamorphic Relation (MR), over 70% of them directly hard-code the source input and follow…