8 papers
An Exploratory Study of Agent Plans for Agentic AI Coding Tools in Open-Source Software
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +4
Repository-level configuration artifacts allow developers to provide guidance for agentic AI coding tools, such as Claude Code, Gemini, etc. Although prior research has examined re…
The Impact of Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools on Build-vs-Buy Decisions: A Study Protocol
Jai Lal Lulla, Matthias Galster, Jie M. Zhang +2
Agentic AI coding tools write code with increasing autonomy and in doing so decide when to import a library and when to implement functionality from scratch. These decisions, wheth…
A Dataset of Agentic AI Coding Tool Configurations
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Levi Böhme +4
Agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex execute multi-step coding tasks with limited human oversight. To steer these tools, developers create repository-level…
Towards Understanding Views on Combining Videos and Gamification in Software Engineering Training
Pasan Peiris, Matthias Galster, Antonija Mitrovic +3
Watching training videos passively leads to superficial learning. Adding gamification can increase engagement. We study how software engineering students and industry practitioners…
Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +3
Agentic AI coding tools increasingly automate software development tasks. Developers can configure these tools through versioned repository-level artifacts such as Markdown and JSO…
On the Impact of AGENTS.md Files on the Efficiency of AI Coding Agents
Jai Lal Lulla, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster +3
AI coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code are increasingly used to autonomously contribute to software repositories. However, little is known about how repository-level config…
Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software
Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude +1
GenAI-based coding assistants have disrupted software development. The next generation of these tools is agent-based, operating with more autonomy and potentially without human ove…
Towards Quantifying Requirements Technical Debt for Software Requirements concerning Veracity: A Perspective and Research Roadmap
Judith Perera, Ewan Tempero, Yu-Cheng Tu +2
Software practitioners can make sub-optimal decisions concerning requirements during gathering, documenting, prioritizing, and implementing requirements as software features or arc…