9 papers
Pomona: Continuous Code Quality Improvement via Small, Agentic Pull Requests at Bloomberg
David Williams, Angelos Evripiotis, Serkan Kirbas +4
In this industrial experience paper, we present Pomona, a lightweight agentic tool that utilises agent skills for continuous code quality improvement. Inspired by the Kaizen (TM) p…
SkillMOO: Multi-Objective Optimization of Agent Skills for Software Engineering
Jingzhi Gong, Ruizhen Gu, Zhiwei Fei +7
Agent skills are increasingly used to configure coding agents for software engineering (SE) tasks, yet current practice treats them as static, hand-crafted assets, or evolved on pa…
Hot Fixing in the Wild
Carol Hanna, Karine Even-Mendoza, W. B. Langdon +3
Despite the operational importance of hot fixes, large-scale evidence on how they reshape routine maintenance workflows, particularly in the era of autonomous coding agents, remain…
BayesInsights: Modelling Software Delivery and Developer Experience with Bayesian Networks at Bloomberg
Serkan Kirbas, Federica Sarro, David Williams
As software in industry grows in size and complexity, so does the volume of engineering data that companies generate and use. Ideally, this data could be used for many purposes, in…
Empirical and Sustainability Aspects of Software Engineering Research in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reflection
David Williams, Max Hort, Maria Kechagia +3
Software Engineering (SE) research involving the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced several new challenges related to rigour in benchmarking, contamination, replica…
FairRF: Multi-Objective Search for Single and Intersectional Software Fairness
Giordano d'Alosio, Max Hort, Rebecca Moussa +1
Background: The wide adoption of AI- and ML-based systems in sensitive domains raises severe concerns about their fairness. Many methods have been proposed in the literature to enh…