Abstracts:Presents a panel discussion on the topic of From AI Assistants to Secure by Design: A Multi-Episode SE Radio Digest.

Abstracts:AI agents are rapidly transforming the software engineering landscape, supported by a wave of new frameworks. Our review of the 10 most representative general-purpose agentic AI frameworks reveals a maturing but fragmented landscape. While some frameworks provide enterprise-ready capabilities, most remain immature, with limited memory models, basic reasoning, and uneven ecosystem support. Significant improvements are needed before these frameworks can enable reliable and large-scale adoption in practice.—Davide Taibi

Abstracts:Fast, effectve incident resolution can be helped or hindered by the design of supports for high-demand cognitive work. With the increasing return to office mandates underway, this article examines how a well-designed physical space can support resilient responses by reducing cognitive and coordinative friction around core functions like signal detection, information seeking/sharing, coordination, sensemaking, monitoring, diagnosing, troubleshooting, mitigating, and resolving incidents.

Abstracts:Large language models are changing how we write, analyze, and reason about requirements. As this shift presents both challenges and opportunities, we examine recent developments in the field of requirements engineering.

Abstracts:Data centers are growing like weeds to make the AI revolution possible and consume a lot of electricity. Some have concluded that nuclear power is the solution to keep the servers humming. Talking about “Impact of software” for 15 years in IEEE Software it is time to dedicate a column to sustainable computing. This column summarizes the main points from Patricia Lago’s keynote at the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025). There is more to come: the March/April 2026 issue of IEEE Software will be dedicated to “Green Clean Software Sustainability.”—Michiel van Genuchten and Les Hatton

Abstracts:The reckless adoption of trendy software engineering practices often sidelines essential activities, hurting product development and causing organizational stress. This article presents experiences with such adoptions to build immunity in practice.

Abstracts:Reported project statuses are inherently biased as they not only show progress, but also manage perception of stakeholders. Understanding the hidden meaning of different “shades of truth” is vital for successful delivery and management of software projects.

Abstracts:A There is increasing research and commercial exploration into tools for automated unit test generation using large language models. This article critically examines how recent tools pitched for unit testing, such as Qodo Cover and GitHub Copilot, handle buggy code.

Abstracts:Future self-adaptive robots are expected to operate in highly dynamic environments while effectively managing uncertainties. We evaluate the potential of large language models in enabling a systematic and automated approach to identify these uncertainties throughout the software engineering lifecycle.

Abstracts:In this article, we present a software architecture employing agentware for automating eXtensible Access Control Markup Language access control policy generation. We build on a prototype pipeline to propose an effective integration of agents into a software system.