Systematic Mapping: Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a core feature of today's real-world applications, making it a trending topic within the software engineering (SE) community. The rise in the availability of AI techniques encompasses the capability to make rapid, automated, impactful decisions and predictions, leading to the adoption of AI techniques in SE. With industry revolution 4.0, the role of software engineering has become critical for developing productive, efficient, and quality software. Thus, there is a major need for AI techniques to be applied to enhance and improve the critical activities within the software engineering phases. Software is developed through intelligent software engineering phases. This paper concerns a systematic mapping study that aimed to characterize the publication landscape of AI techniques in software engineering. Gaps are identified and discussed by mapping these AI techniques against the SE phases to which they contributed. Many systematic mapping review papers have been produced only for a specific AI technique or a specific SE phase or activity. Hence, to our best of knowledge within the last decade, there is no systematic mapping review that has fully explored the overall trends in AI techniques and their application to all SE phases.

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This paper presents a systematic mapping study that aims to explore the application of AI techniques in software engineering. By comparing the relationship between AI techniques and SE phases, gaps have been identified. To the best of our knowledge within the last decade, no study has fully explored the overall trends of AI techniques and their application to all SE phases.