6 papers
A Research Agenda on Agents and Software Engineering: Outcomes from the Rio A2SE Seminar
Davide Taibi, Henry Muccini, Karthik Vaidhyanathan +15
The rise of agentic AI is reshaping software engineering in two intertwined directions: agents are increasingly applied to support software engineering tasks, and Agentic AI system…
Taking a Pulse on How Generative AI is Reshaping the Software Engineering Research Landscape
Bianca Trinkenreich, Fabio Calefato, Kelly Blincoe +8
Context: Software engineering (SE) researchers increasingly study Generative AI (GenAI) while also incorporating it into their own research practices. Despite rapid adoption, there…
An Empirical Study of Generative AI Adoption in Software Engineering
Görkem Giray, Onur Demirörs, Marcos Kalinowski +1
Context. GenAI tools are being increasingly adopted by practitioners in SE, promising support for several SE activities. Despite increasing adoption, we still lack empirical eviden…
Towards a Framework for Operationalizing the Specification of Trustworthy AI Requirements
Hugo Villamizar, Daniel Mendez, Marcos Kalinowski
Growing concerns around the trustworthiness of AI-enabled systems highlight the role of requirements engineering (RE) in addressing emergent, context-dependent properties that are…
Designing a Syllabus for a Course on Empirical Software Engineering
Paris Avgeriou, Nauman bin Ali, Marcos Kalinowski +1
Increasingly, courses on Empirical Software Engineering research methods are being offered in higher education institutes across the world, mostly at the M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels. Wh…
Teaching Empirical Research Methods in Software Engineering: An Editorial Introduction
Daniel Mendez, Paris Avgeriou, Marcos Kalinowski +1
Empirical Software Engineering has received much attention in recent years and became a de-facto standard for scientific practice in Software Engineering. However, while extensive…