ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Recent advances in agentic AI have shifted the focus from standalone Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrated systems that combine LLMs with tools, memory, and other agents to perform complex tasks. These multi-agent architectures enable coordinated reasoning, planning, and execution across diverse domains, allowing agents to collaboratively automate complex workflows. Despite these advances, evaluation and assessment of LLM agents and the multi-agent systems they constitute remain a fundamental challenge. Although various approaches have been proposed in the software engineering literature for evaluating conventional software components, existing methods for AI-based systems often overlook the non-deterministic nature of models. This non-determinism introduces behavioral uncertainty during execution, yet existing evaluations rely on binary task-completion metrics that fail to capture it. Evaluating agentic systems therefore requires examining additional dimensions, including the agent’s ability to invoke tools, ingest and retrieve memory, collaborate with other agents, and interact effectively with its environment.

These challenges emerged during our ongoing industry collaboration with MontyCloud Inc., an industrial partner in the domain of Autonomous CloudOps, when we deployed an agentic system in production. These limitations surfaced during deployment, highlighting practical gaps in the current evaluation methods and the need for a systematic assessment of agent behavior beyond task outcomes. Informed by these observations and established definitions of agentic systems, we propose an end-to-end Agent Assessment Framework with four evaluation pillars encompassing LLMs, Memory, Tools, and Environment. We validate the framework on a representative Autonomous CloudOps use case, where experiments reveal behavioral deviations overlooked by conventional metrics, demonstrating its effectiveness in capturing runtime uncertainties.

Tue 14 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
Evaluation, Reliability, and Engineering PracticeAGENT at Oceania VIII
Chair(s): Oshani Weerakoon Department of Computing, University of Turku
14:00
30m
Keynote
Keynote: On the Evaluation of AI Coding Agents
AGENT
K: Chao Peng ByteDance
14:30
6m
Talk
Beyond Task Completion: An Assessment Framework for Evaluating Agentic AI Systems
AGENT
Sreemaee Akshathala IIIT Hyderabad, Bassam Adnan IIIT Hyderabad, Mahisha Ramesh IIIT Hyderabad, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad, Basil Muhammed MontyCloud, Kannan Parthasarathy MontyCloud
14:36
6m
Talk
PerfBench: Can Agents Resolve Real-World Performance Bugs?Virtual Attendance
AGENT
Spandan Garg Microsoft Corporation, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam Microsoft, Neel Sundaresan Microsoft
Pre-print Media Attached
14:42
6m
Talk
SWEnergy: An Empirical Study on Energy Efficiency in Agentic Issue Resolution Frameworks with SLMs
AGENT
Arihant Tripathy IIIT Hyderabad, India, Ch Pavan Harshit IIIT Hyderabad, India, Karthik Vaidhyanathan IIIT Hyderabad
14:48
6m
Talk
Context Matters: Evaluating MCP-Based Context-Aware AI — A Case Study of Email Communications in Nonprofit Organizations
AGENT
Nitin Gupta University of Victoria, Jayani Samaraweera University of Victoria, Raaj Chatterjee Meaningful Technology Inc., Riya Shrestha University of Victoria, Trinity West University of Victoria, Dana Damian University of Victoria
14:54
6m
Talk
Toward Agentic Software Project Management: A Vision and Roadmap
AGENT
Lakshana Assalaarachchi Monash University, Australia, Zainab Masood Prince Sultan University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, John Grundy Monash University
15:00
6m
Talk
Not All Problems Are Nails, Not All Tools Should Be Hammers: A Position Paper on Agent Usage in Software Engineering Tasks
AGENT
Juuso Rytilahti Department of Computing, University of Turku, Panu Puhtila University of Turku, Oshani Weerakoon Department of Computing, University of Turku, Erkki Kaila Department of Computing, University of Turku, Tuomas Mäkilä University of Turku
15:06
24m
Live Q&A
Session 3 Joint Q&A
AGENT