3 papers
cs.SE2026
"Don't Be Afraid, Just Learn": Insights from Industry Practitioners to Prepare Software Engineers in the Age of Generative AI
Daniel Otten, Trevor Stalnaker, Nathan Wintersgill +3
Although tension between university curricula and industry expectations has existed in some form for decades, the rapid integration of generative AI (GenAI) tools into software dev…
cs.SE2026
Prompting in Practice: Investigating Software Practitioners' Use of Generative AI Tools
Daniel Otten, Trevor Stalnaker, Nathan Wintersgill +2
The use of generative AI (GenAI) tools has fundamentally transformed software development. Central to this shift is prompt engineering, the practice of crafting textual prompts to…
cs.SE2026
Developers' Perspectives on Software Licensing: Current Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker, Daniel Otten +5
Most modern software products incorporate open-source components, requiring development teams to maintain compliance with each component's licenses. Noncompliance can have signific…