TY - GEN
T1 - Insights from the Frontline
T2 - 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2025
AU - Choudhuri, Rudrajit
AU - Ramakrishnan, Ambareesh
AU - Chatterjee, Amreeta
AU - Trinkenreich, Bianca
AU - Steinmacher, Igor
AU - Gerosa, Marco
AU - Sarma, Anita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Generative AI (genAI) tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) have become ubiquitous in software engineering (SE). As SE educators, it behooves us to understand the consequences of genAI usage among SE students and to create a holistic view of where these tools can be successfully used. Through 16 reflective interviews with SE students, we explored their academic experiences of using genAI tools to complement SE learning and implementations. We uncover the contexts where these tools are helpful and where they pose challenges, along with examining why these challenges arise and how they impact students. We validated our findings through member checking and triangulation with instructors. Our findings provide practical considerations of where and why genAI should (not) be used in the context of supporting SE students.
AB - Generative AI (genAI) tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) have become ubiquitous in software engineering (SE). As SE educators, it behooves us to understand the consequences of genAI usage among SE students and to create a holistic view of where these tools can be successfully used. Through 16 reflective interviews with SE students, we explored their academic experiences of using genAI tools to complement SE learning and implementations. We uncover the contexts where these tools are helpful and where they pose challenges, along with examining why these challenges arise and how they impact students. We validated our findings through member checking and triangulation with instructors. Our findings provide practical considerations of where and why genAI should (not) be used in the context of supporting SE students.
KW - Challenges and Benefits
KW - Empirical Study
KW - Generative AI
KW - Human-AI Interaction
KW - Software Engineering Education
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105008492832
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=105008492832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSEET66350.2025.00007
DO - 10.1109/CSEET66350.2025.00007
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105008492832
T3 - Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 12
BT - Proceedings - 2025 IEEE/ACM 37th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2025
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 April 2025 through 29 April 2025
ER -