cs.SE · 2026-08-03 · No. 73

Software Engineering, 2026-08-03.

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

01 — The papers

5 entries
  1. 01

    From Code Review to Code Critique: Intent, Drift, and Spotlight for AI-Generated Diffs at Scale

    Chandra Maddila, Mashrur Rashik, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Smriti Jha, James Saindon, Nachi Nagappan, Peter C. Rigby

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    AI coding agents are generating code at volumes that exceed the capacity of traditional peer review. At the same time, existing AI code review tools over-index on low-value suggestions such as style and best practices while under-indexing on the concerns human reviewers prioritize most: correctness, security, and performance. We present ARCTIC, an AI-powered Code Critique system that reframes code review around three capabilities: intent...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.29516 · PDF

  2. 02

    AgenticRepair: Multi-Faceted Program Context Engineering for Agentic Vulnerability Repair

    Michael Fu, Qiyue Mei, Patanamon Thongtanunam, Kla Tantithamthavorn

    cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.CR

    Automated vulnerability repair aims to reduce the time and effort required to patch security flaws from a vulnerability triage report. Recent agentic AI approaches have shown promising results in automated program repair. However, vulnerability repair demands richer program context than general bug repair - context that security engineers routinely assemble in practice but that existing agentic approaches do not engineer. We identify three...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.29422 · PDF

  3. 03

    To Add Is Machine, To Delete Is Human: Measuring and Mitigating Deletion Avoidance in LLM Code Editing

    Amir M. Ebrahimi, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Aaditya Bhatia, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Ahmed E. Hassan

    cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.LG

    Large language models increasingly write and repair production code, yet evidence is mounting that their test-passing patches leave codebases harder to maintain. We identify one concrete source: deletion avoidance, the systematic tendency to retain code that an intended edit requires removing. Across the five leading models on the official SWE-bench Verified leaderboard, deletion recall against the developer patch reaches at most 71.7% even...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28887 · PDF

  4. 04

    Validation Evidence in LLM Repair Agents: How Much of What Passes Actually Tests the Bug?

    Xiaonan Xu, Wenjing Wu

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    When a repair agent runs a test and sees it pass, the result is treated as evidence about the reported defect. We measure how often that treatment is warranted. BSG-VA (buggy-state/candidate-state/gold-fix validation analysis) captures each validation command at its exact working-tree state, extracts a test-only patch, and replays the command on the original buggy code (B), the candidate state (S), and the developer gold fix (G). The captured...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28871 · PDF

  5. 05

    DragonCrawl: A Generative, Intent-Based Framework for Scalable Mobile End-to-End Testing

    Sowjanya Puligadda, Mengdie Zhang, Ali Zamani, Dhruva Dixith Kurra, Eric Chen, Juan Marcano

    cs.SE · cs.AI

    As mobile applications grow in complexity, traditional End-to-End (E2E) testing frameworks struggle with UI volatility, maintenance overhead, and cross-platform scalability. This paper presents DragonCrawl, an AI-driven mobile testing system for continuous regression testing that has evolved from embedding-based similarity matching to generative intent-based reasoning using large language models. Unlike prior LLM-based testing research...

    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28750 · PDF

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