AI/ML fundamentals, agentic development, prompting, and testing are the most commonly documented topics in AI-assisted software engineering courses¶
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q2 i? Across 18 courses with public topic information, AI/ML fundamentals was the most common topic label, and agentic development, prompting, and testing were also prominent. → Francis Geng 2026
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Francis Geng 2026¶
Francis Geng, Anshul Shah, Mia Chen, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Bill Griswold, Gerald Soosai Raj, and Leo Porter. (2026). Mapping the Emerging Curriculum for AI-Assisted Software Engineering via Syllabus Analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05898 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.05898
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Qualitative coding of 211 topic entries from 18 courses with public topic information (Table 5); codebook stabilized at Fleiss' κ of 0.80. AI/ML fundamentals appeared in 12 courses, agentic development in 10, prompting in 9, testing in 10.
"AI/ML fundamentals was the most common topic label, suggesting that many courses introduced foun- dational AI/ML concepts alongside applied software engineering rather than treating AI tools only as black-box coding assistants."
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AI/ML fundamentals, agentic development, prompting, and testing are the most commonly documented topics in AI-assisted software engineering courses |
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AI/ML fundamentals, agentic development, prompting, and testing are the most commonly documented topics in AI-assisted software engineering courses |
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