A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming software engineering (SE) practices, influencing how SE processes are executed, as well as how software systems are developed, operated, and evolved. This paper applies design science research to build a roadmap for GenAI-augmented SE. The process consists of three cycles that incrementally integrate multiple sources of evidence, including collaborative discussions from the FSE 2025 “Software Engineering 2030” workshop, rapid literature reviews, and external feedback sessions involving peers. McLuhan’s tetrads were used as a conceptual instrument to systematically capture the transforming effects of GenAI on SE processes and software products. The resulting roadmap identifies four fundamental forms of GenAI augmentation in SE and systematically characterizes their related research challenges and opportunities. These insights are then consolidated into a set of future research directions. By grounding the roadmap in a rigorous multi-cycle process and cross-validating it among independent author teams and peers, the study provides a transparent and reproducible foundation for analyzing how GenAI affects SE processes, methods, and tools, and for framing future research within this rapidly evolving area.
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14:00 - 15:30 | SE and AI 1Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Journal-First Paper / Research Papers at MB 3.210 Chair(s): Zhijie Wang Concordia University | ||
14:00 10mTalk | Bio-Aware Software Engineering for Reproducible Research Ideas, Visions and Reflections Yiming Zeng University of Connecticut, Dingbang Wang University of Connecticut, Ryan Green University of Cincinnati, Sandeep Kuttal North Carolina State University, Jinze Liu Virginia Commonwealth University, Tingting Yu University of Connecticut | ||
14:10 20mTalk | Predicting long time contributors with knowledge units of programming languages: an empirical study Journal-First Paper Md Ahasanuzzaman Queen's University, Gustavo A. Oliva Huawei Canada and Queen's University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen’s University | ||
14:30 20mTalk | Human-AI experience in integrated development environments: a systematic literature review Journal-First Paper Agnia Sergeyuk JetBrains Research, Ilya Zakharov JetBrains Research, Ekaterina Koshchenko JetBrains Research, Mali Izadi Google & TU Delft | ||
14:50 20mTalk | Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Roadmap for Sustaining Open Source Communities in the Age of GenAI Journal-First Paper Zixuan Feng Virginia Commonwealth University, Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories, Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft, Tyler Menezes CodeDay, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Igor Steinmacher RESHAPE LAB, Northern Arizona University, USA, Anita Sarma Oregon State University Pre-print | ||
15:10 20mTalk | A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI Journal-First Paper Domenico Amalfitano University of Naples Federico II, Andreas Metzger paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Tommaso Fulcini Politecnico di Torino, Tobias Hey Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Jan Keim Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, Vincenzo Scotti Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Anne Koziolek Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Raffaela Mirandola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen | ||