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The landscape of software engineering has dramatically changed in recent years. The impressive advances of artificial intelligence are just the latest and most disruptive innovation that has remarkably changed the software engineering research and practice. This special issue shares a roadmap to guide the software engineering community in this confused era. This roadmap is the outcome of a 2-day intensive discussion at the2030 Software Engineeringworkshop. The roadmap spotlights and discusses seven main landmarks in the new software engineering landscape: artificial intelligence for software engineering, human aspects of software engineering, software security, verification and validation, sustainable software engineering, automatic programming, and quantum software engineering. This editorial summarizes the core aspects discussed in the 37 papers that comprise the seven sections of the special issue and guides the interested readers throughout the issue. This roadmap is a living body that we will refine with follow-up workshops that will update the roadmap for a series of forthcoming ACM TOSEM special issues.
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Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead
Artificial intelligence and recent advances in deep learning architectures, including transformer networks and large language models, change the way people think and act to solve problems. Software engineering, as an increasingly complex process to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain large-scale software systems for solving real-world challenges, is profoundly affected by many revolutionary artificial intelligence tools in general and machine learning in particular. In this roadmap for artificial intelligence in software engineering, we highlight the recent deep impact of artificial intelligence on software engineering by discussing successful stories of applications of artificial intelligence to classic and new software development challenges. We identify the new challenges that the software engineering community has to address in the coming years to successfully apply artificial intelligence in software engineering, and we share our research roadmap toward the effective use of artificial intelligence in the software engineering profession, while still protecting fundamental human values. We spotlight three main areas that challenge the research in software engineering: the use of generative artificial intelligence and large language models for engineering large software systems, the need of large and unbiased datasets and benchmarks for training and evaluating deep learning and large language models for software engineering, and the need of a new code of digital ethics to apply artificial intelligence in software engineering.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2423813
- PAR ID:
- 10647949
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 5
- ISSN:
- 1049-331X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 27
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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