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Large language models trained on code have shown great potential to increase productivity of software developers. Several execution-based benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate functional correctness of model-generated code on simple…

Ontology authoring is a complex process, where commonly the automated reasoner is invoked for verification of newly introduced changes, therewith amounting to a time-consuming test-last approach. Test-Driven Development (TDD) for ontology…

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In industrial model-based development (MBD) frameworks, requirements are typically specified informally using textual descriptions. To enable the application of formal methods, these specifications need to be formalized in the input…

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Unit testing is an essential component of software testing, with the assert statements playing an important role in determining whether the tested function operates as expected. Although research has explored automated test case generation,…

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Software has eaten the world with many of the necessities and quality of life services people use requiring software. Therefore, tools that improve the software development experience can have a significant impact on the world such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Nathan Cooper

Automated unit test generation is an established research field, and mature test generation tools exist for statically typed programming languages such as Java. It is, however, substantially more difficult to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Stephan Lukasczyk , Florian Kroiß , Gordon Fraser

We present a High-Level Python-based Hardware Description Language (HDPython), It uses Python as its source language and converts it to standard VHDL. Compared to other approaches of building converters from a high-level programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-30 R. Peschke , K. Nishimura , G. Varner

A new behavior descriptive entity type called spec is proposed, which combines the traditional interface with test rules and test cases, to completely specify the desired behavior of each method, and to enforce the behavior-wise correctness…

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Software design techniques are undoubtedly crucial in the process of designing good software. Over the years, a large number of design techniques have been proposed by both researchers and practitioners. Unfortunately, despite their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gustavo Pinto , Alberto de Souza

Computer programming initially required humans to directly translate their goals into machine code. These goals could have easily been expressed as a written (or human) language directive. Computers, however, had no capacity to…

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Constraints among test parameters often have substantial effects on the performance of test case generation for combinatorial interaction testing. This paper investigates the effectiveness of the use of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya

The paper examines the handling times of software vulnerabilities in CPython, the reference implementation and interpreter for the today's likely most popular programming language, Python. The background comes from the so-called…

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The Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) is the state-of-the-art language for specifying planning problems in artificial intelligence research. Writing and maintaining these planning problems, however, can be time-consuming and error…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Volker Strobel , Alexandra Kirsch

Automated regression test generation has been extensively explored, yet generating high-quality tests for Python programs remains particularly challenging. Because of the Python's dynamic typing features, existing approaches, ranging from…

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Current large language models have dangerous capabilities, which are likely to become more problematic in the future. Activation steering techniques can be used to reduce risks from these capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Teun van der Weij , Massimo Poesio , Nandi Schoots

Due to the rise of machine learning, Python is an increasingly popular programming language. Python, however, is dynamically typed. Dynamic typing has shown to have drawbacks when a project grows, while at the same time it improves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Casper Boone , Niels de Bruin , Arjan Langerak , Fabian Stelmach

Simulation-driven development of intelligent machines benefits from artificial terrains with controllable, well-defined characteristics. However, most existing tools for terrain generation focus on artist-driven workflows and visual…

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The recent development on large language models makes automatically constructing small programs possible. It thus has the potential to free software engineers from low-level coding and allow us to focus on the perhaps more interesting parts…

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Integrating the design and creation of fault identification and diagnostic capabilities into Model-Driven Development methodologies is one approach to enhancing the resilience of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems. We present a Fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Barry Dowdeswell , Roopak Sinha , Stephen G. MacDonell