Schedule
Week at a Glance¶
Week 12: November 9th - November 13th¶
Lectures & Readings
Research Paper Presentations - What Do Code LLMs Actually Know?
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Tue November 10th
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Presenting: Team 8 (Euraste-ICSE'26), Open slot - extra credit, TBA (Ribeiro-ICSE'26)
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Research Paper Presentations - LLMs for Generating Tests & Proofs
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Thu November 12th
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Presenting: Team 4 (Nashid-ICSE'26), Team 2 (Kasibatla-ICSE'26)
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Critical Research Paper Reviews
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Released Friday, October 9th
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Due Friday, December 4th, 11:59pm
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Projects
Research Project Checkpoint 2 - Development Sprint Deliverables
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Released Friday, November 6th
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Due Friday, December 4th, 11:59pm
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Course Schedule¶
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This schedule is subject to change throughout the course of the semester. Any changes will be announced on Ed Discussions.
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The research paper reading list for the second half of the semester is now posted under the Course Reading List tab below. Team paper assignments will be announced on Ed Discussions.
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Students can download the papers from this page. Please note that the paper downloads are password protected.
| Week | Date | Topic | Materials | Assignment Deadlines | Project Deadlines |
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| Week 1 | Tue Aug 25 | Introduction | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo |
Assignment 1 - Git, GitHub, and JavaScript
Due Friday September 4th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Aug 27 | Software Archeology and Anthropology | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo | |||
| Week 2 | Tue Sep 1 | Metrics and Measurement | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo | ||
| Thu Sep 3 | No Class - UCF Football Game 🏈 | ||||
| Week 3 | Tue Sep 8 | Project Planning & Agile Development | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo |
Assignment 2 - Project Onboarding
Due Friday September 18th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Sep 10 | Software Teams & Communication Pt. I | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo |
SDE Project Checkpoint 1
Due Friday September 25th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Week 4 | Tue Sep 15 | Software Teams & Communication Pt. II | picture_as_pdf Slides | ||
| Thu Sep 17 | Software Testing | picture_as_pdf Slides | |||
| Week 5 | Tue Sep 22 | Software Architecture | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo |
Assignment 3 - Deployment and CI/CD
Due Wednesday September 30th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Sep 24 | Static & Dynamic Analysis | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo | |||
| Week 6 | Tue Sep 29 | Agentic Software Engineering I: How Agents Work & What to Delegate | picture_as_pdf Slides slideshowVideo |
SDE Project Checkpoint 2
Due Friday October 23rd @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Oct 1 | GitHub for the SDE Project: Issues, Project Boards & Pull Requests | touch_app Walkthrough |
Assignment 4 - Static Analysis & CI
Due Friday October 9th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Week 7 | Tue Oct 6 | No Class - Dr. Moran at ISSTA 2026 ✈️ | |||
| Thu Oct 8 | school Guest Lecture - Atish on his TOSEM paper | ||||
| Week 8 | Tue Oct 13 | Agentic Software Engineering II: Workflows, Verification & Responsibility | picture_as_pdf Slides |
Critical Research Paper Reviews
Due Friday December 4th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Oct 15 | Midterm Exam | picture_as_pdf Review Slides touch_app Interactive Review | |||
| Week 9 | Tue Oct 20 | Agentic Software Engineering III: Workflows, Verification & Responsibility (continued) | picture_as_pdf Slides | ||
| Thu Oct 22 | Introduction to Software Engineering Research + How to Read a Research Paper | picture_as_pdf Slides | |||
| Week 10 | Tue Oct 27 | How to Present a Research Paper Pt. I | picture_as_pdf Slides |
Research Project Checkpoint 1
Due Friday November 6th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Oct 29 | How to Present a Research Paper Pt. II | description Materials | |||
| Week 11 | Tue Nov 3 | Research Paper Presentations - Developers & AI Assistants in Practice Presenting: Team 3, Team 6 |
Liu-FSE'26 Denisov-Blanch-ASE'26 |
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| Thu Nov 5 | construction Industry Speaker - TBD | ||||
| Week 12 | Tue Nov 10 | Research Paper Presentations - What Do Code LLMs Actually Know? Presenting: Team 8, Open slot (extra credit, TBA) |
Euraste-ICSE'26 Ribeiro-ICSE'26 |
Research Project Checkpoint 2
Due Friday December 4th @ 11:59pm InfoInformation |
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| Thu Nov 12 | Research Paper Presentations - LLMs for Generating Tests & Proofs Presenting: Team 4, Team 2 |
Nashid-ICSE'26 Kasibatla-ICSE'26 |
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| Week 13 | Tue Nov 17 | construction Industry Speaker - David Nader Palacio on SWE Research at Microsoft | |||
| Thu Nov 19 | Research Paper Presentations - Evaluating Agentic Issue Resolution Presenting: Team 1, Team 9 |
Wang-ASE'26 Liu-ASE'26 |
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| Week 14 | Tue Nov 24 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break 🦃 | |||
| Thu Nov 26 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break 🦃 | ||||
| Week 15 | Tue Dec 1 | Research Paper Presentations - Safe & Reliable AI Agents Presenting: Team 5, Open slot (extra credit, TBA) |
Bühler-FSE'26 Zhang-ASE'26 |
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| Thu Dec 3 | Research Paper Presentations - Testing & Repairing XR Applications Last Day of Classes Presenting: Team 7, Team 10 |
Li-FSE'26 Wu-ICSE'26 |
Team Assignments
Each project team has been assigned one paper from the list below; the presenting team is listed in bold at the end of each entry. Assignments were made first-come, first-served from the preferences each team submitted. Two papers are still open and will be offered as extra credit presentations (details to be announced on Ed Discussions). Please see the Presentations page for presentation instructions and grading criteria.
Week 11 - November 3rd - Developers & AI Assistants in Practice
- Liu-FSE'26: Yuhong Liu, Yunhe Su, Zhipeng Peng, Zhiwen Luo, Lin Shi, Zhi Jin, Li Zhang. 2026. On the Road to Personalized Code Intelligence: Portraiting and Assisting Developers Based on Their In-IDE Behaviors. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'26) Team 3
- Denisov-Blanch-ASE'26: Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Shyam Agarwal, Pavel Azaletskiy, Hao He, Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Bogdan Vasilescu. 2026. A Few Pages of Markdown: Committed AI Configuration and Lower Quality Cost after Coding-Agent Adoption. Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'26) Team 6
Week 12 - November 10th - What Do Code LLMs Actually Know?
- Ribeiro-ICSE'26: Francisco Ribeiro, Claudio Spiess, Prem Devanbu, Sarah Nadi. 2026. On LLMs’ Internal Representation of Code Correctness. Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26) Open - extra credit presentation, TBA
- Euraste-ICSE'26: Djiré Albérick Euraste, Kaboré Abdoul Kader, Jordan Samhi, Earl T. Barr, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé. 2026. Learned or Memorized? Quantifying Memorization Advantage in Code LLMs. Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26) Team 8
Week 12 - November 12th - LLMs for Generating Tests & Proofs
- Nashid-ICSE'26: Noor Nashid, Islem Bouzenia, Michael Pradel, Ali Mesbah. 2026. Issue2Test: Generating Reproducing Test Cases from Issue Reports. Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26) Team 4
- Kasibatla-ICSE'26: Saketh Ram Kasibatla, Arpan Agarwal, Yuriy Brun, Sorin Lerner, Talia Ringer, Emily First. 2026. Cobblestone: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Automating Formal Verification. Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26) Team 2
Week 13 - November 19th - Evaluating Agentic Issue Resolution
- Wang-ASE'26: Manyi Wang, Junjielong Xu, Pinjia He. 2026. PAIChecker: Uncovering and Checking PR-Issue Misalignment in SWE-Bench-Like Benchmarks. Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'26) Team 1
- Liu-ASE'26: Shuyang Liu, Saman Dehghan, Jatin Ganhotra, Martin Hirzel, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand. 2026. From Plan to Action: How Well Do Agents Follow the Plan? Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'26) Team 9
Week 15 - December 1st - Safe & Reliable AI Agents
- Bühler-FSE'26: Christoph Bühler, Matteo Biagiola, Luca Di Grazia, Guido Salvaneschi. 2026. AgentBound: Securing Execution Boundaries of AI Agents. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'26) Team 5
- Zhang-ASE'26: Xiaowen Zhang, Hannuo Zhang, Shin Hwei Tan. 2026. Understanding Bugs in Modern Agentic Frameworks: A Study of Symptoms, Root Causes, and Triggering Conditions. Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'26) Open - extra credit presentation, TBA
Week 15 - December 3rd - Testing & Repairing XR Applications
- Li-FSE'26: Shuqing Li, Binchang Li, Yepang Liu, Cuiyun Gao, Jianping Zhang, Shing-Chi Cheung, Michael R. Lyu. 2026. Look Before You Leap: Context-Sensitive GUI Grounding for Boosting Automated Extended Reality (XR) Testing. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'26) Team 7
- Wu-ICSE'26: Jingwen Wu, Hanyang Guo, Hong-Ning Dai, Xiapu Luo. 2026. XRFix: Exploring Performance Bug Repair of Extended Reality Applications with Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26) Team 10