A Survey on Large Language Models for Software Engineering

A Survey on Large Language Models for Software Engineering. Zhang, Q., Fang, C., Xie, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., Sun, W., Yu, S., & Chen, Z. September, 2024. arXiv:2312.15223 [cs]

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Software Engineering (SE) is the systematic design, development, maintenance, and management of software applications underpinning the digital infrastructure of our modern world. Very recently, the SE community has seen a rapidly increasing number of techniques employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate a broad range of SE tasks. Nevertheless, existing information of the applications, effects, and possible limitations of LLMs within SE is still not well-studied.

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	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15223},
	doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2312.15223},
	abstract = {Software Engineering (SE) is the systematic design, development, maintenance, and management of software applications underpinning the digital infrastructure of our modern world. Very recently, the SE community has seen a rapidly increasing number of techniques employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate a broad range of SE tasks. Nevertheless, existing information of the applications, effects, and possible limitations of LLMs within SE is still not well-studied.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2026-01-14},
	publisher = {arXiv},
	author = {Zhang, Quanjun and Fang, Chunrong and Xie, Yang and Zhang, Yaxin and Yang, Yun and Sun, Weisong and Yu, Shengcheng and Chen, Zhenyu},
	month = sep,
	year = {2024},
	note = {arXiv:2312.15223 [cs]},
	keywords = {/unread, Computer Science - Software Engineering},
}

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