Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
Sofcom and the test the agents don't get to see
An independent research effort asks whether agentic AI can migrate public-sector legacy software while preserving its behavior.
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- Public-sector software teams and migration researchers
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- The proposed characterization suite is withheld from migrating agents, making it a held-out acceptance test rather than a target to optimize against.
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The proposed workflow derives tests from a running legacy system rather than relying on its documentation, then withholds those tests from the migrating agents. The project says it will compare COBOL, Fortran, VB6, and Delphi systems using public codebases, and report failure types as well as pass rates. Its first 6-to-12-month schedule describes public deliverables, but the supplied page evidence does not include results.
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