16 papers
What Are Developers Actually Discussing When Visual Regression Tests Fail?
Miku Watanabe, Kosei Horikawa, Brittany Reid +2
Visual Regression Tests (VRTs) are widely adopted as a mechanism for detecting unintended visual changes in user interfaces. By design, VRTs operate on rendered pixel output, and t…
How Do Developers Maintain and Evolve Their Agents' Instructions? An Empirical Study
Gianmario Voria, Alfonso Cannavale, Andrea De Lucia +3
Context. Autonomous coding agents are increasingly used in software development, shifting parts of the engineering process to AI assistance. While this automation brings clear bene…
Agentic Software Engineering: Foundational Pillars and a Research Roadmap
Ahmed E. Hassan, Hao Li, Dayi Lin +4
Agentic Software Engineering (SE 3.0) represents a new era where intelligent agents are tasked not with simple code generation, but with achieving complex, goal-oriented SE objecti…
To What Extent Does Agent-generated Code Require Maintenance? An Empirical Study
Shota Sawada, Tatsuya Shirai, Yutaro Kashiwa +3
LLM-based autonomous coding agents have reshaped software development. While these agents excel at code generation, open questions persist about the long-term maintainability of AI…
Testing with AI Agents: An Empirical Study of Test Generation Frequency, Quality, and Coverage
Suzuka Yoshimoto, Shun Fujita, Kosei Horikawa +3
Agent-based coding tools have transformed software development practices. Unlike prompt-based approaches that require developers to manually integrate generated code, these agent-b…
Do AI Agents Really Improve Code Readability?
Kyogo Horikawa, Kosei Horikawa, Yutaro Kashiwa +2
Code readability is fundamental to software quality and maintainability. Poor readability extends development time, increases bug-inducing risks, and contributes to technical debt.…