14 papers
Test Design and Review Argumentation in AI-Assisted Test Generation
Eduard Paul Enoiu, Robert Feldt
AI assistants can increasingly generate and evolve test cases. The challenge is no longer merely to produce them, but also to help engineers understand why a generated artefact exi…
The Semi-Executable Stack: Agentic Software Engineering and the Expanding Scope of SE
Robert Feldt, Per Lenberg, Julian Frattini +1
AI-based systems, currently driven largely by LLMs and tool-using agentic harnesses, are increasingly discussed as a possible threat to software engineering. Foundation models get…
Towards Improving the External Validity of Software Engineering Experiments with Transportability Methods
Julian Frattini, Richard Torkar, Robert Feldt +1
Controlled experiments are a core research method in software engineering (SE) for validating causal claims. However, recruiting a sample of participants that represents the intend…
SE Journals in 2036: Looking Back at the Future We Need to Have
Tim Menzies, Paris Avgeriou, Robert Feldt +5
In 2025, SE publishing faces an existential crisis of scalability. As our communities swell globally and integrate fast-moving methodologies like LLMs, traditional peer-review prac…
GateLens: A Reasoning-Enhanced LLM Agent for Automotive Software Release Analytics
Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee, Shuai Wang, Robert Feldt +2
Ensuring reliable data-driven decisions is crucial in domains where analytical accuracy directly impacts safety, compliance, or operational outcomes. Decision support in such domai…
Exploring the Garden of Forking Paths in Empirical Software Engineering Research: A Multiverse Analysis
Nathan Cassee, Robert Feldt
In empirical software engineering (SE) research, researchers have considerable freedom to decide how to process data, what operationalizations to use, and which statistical model t…