cs.SE · 2026-07-30 · No. 69

Software Engineering, 2026-07-30.

2 new papers in cs.SE. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis

    Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa, Feng Lin, Boyuan Chen, Shaowei Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan

    cs.SE · cs.CL · cs.LG

    Coding agents have made substantial progress on software engineering tasks that modify existing codebases, including bug fixing and feature implementation. However, constructing a complete program from scratch remains a major challenge: even the frontier models evaluated on ProgramBench fully resolve fewer than 1% of tasks. One obstacle is the lack of scalable training environments for this from-scratch setting, spanning the whole software...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.27146 · PDF

  2. 02

    A First Look at Coding Agents' Compliance with AI Contribution Rules in Open-Source Communities

    Wenhao Yang, Runzhi He, Minghui Zhou

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    Open source communities have been flooded with AI-generated contributions. In defense, they have written contribution rules to regulate coding agents' behavior, spanning from a total ban, mandatory disclosure, to verification gates and human sign-offs. Yet, whether coding agents read and follow those rules, and behave in open source repositories, remains unknown. To estimate real-world rule compliance of coding agents, we curate 106 issues...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.26819 · PDF

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