Automated Software Engineering

Overview

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In this part, we look into recent progress into automated software engineering, where parts of the software engineering process are automated. The chapters and their contents are as follows.

• Automated Software Engineering Myth takes a peek at an 1980s article discussing myths and realities of automatic programming systems.

• Automated Program Repair focuses on the task of automatically repairing bugs in programs.

• Agent-based Systems for Software Development briefly highlights recent work on using large language model -driven agents for handling software engineering tasks.

• Building Larger Applications discusses some of the challenges of building larger applications with large language models.