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With the expansion of the software scale and complexity of smart grid systems, the detection of smart grid software defects has become a research hotspot. Because of the large scale of the existing smart grid software code, the efficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Ling Yuan , Siyuan Zhou , Neal Xiong

This paper introduces a method for detecting, estimating, and localising a soft fault in wired communication networks. The proposed method is based on analysing the transmission coefficients (TC) in the time domain under both fault-free and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ameer Ahmadie

Recent advances in program synthesis offer means to automatically debug student submissions and generate personalized feedback in massive programming classrooms. When automatically generating feedback for programming assignments, a key…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ryo Suzuki , Gustavo Soares , Andrew Head , Elena Glassman , Ruan Reis , Melina Mongiovi , Loris D'Antoni , Bjoern Hartmann

Statistical fault localization is an easily deployed technique for quickly determining candidates for faulty code locations. If a human programmer has to search the fault beyond the top candidate locations, though, more traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Ezekiel Soremekun , Lukas Kirschner , Marcel Böhme , Andreas Zeller

Artificial Intelligence has gained a lot of attention recently, it has been utilized in several fields ranging from daily life activities, such as responding to emails and scheduling appointments, to manufacturing and automating work…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Mohammed O. Alannsary

Although some previous research has found ways to find inclusivity bugs (biases in software that introduce inequities), little attention has been paid to how to go about fixing such bugs. Without a process to move from finding to fixing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mariam Guizani , Igor Steinmacher , Jillian Emard , Abrar Fallatah , Margaret Burnett , Anita Sarma

We introduced a new approach to describe Java software as graph, where nodes represent a Java file - called compilation unit (CU) - and an edges represent a relations between them. The software system is characterized by the degree…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Alessandro Murgia , Giulio Concas , Michele Marchesi , Roberto Tonelli , Ivana Turnu

Recognizing errors in assembly and maintenance procedures is valuable for industrial applications, since it can increase worker efficiency and prevent unplanned down-time. Although assembly state recognition is gaining attention, none of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Dan Lehman , Tim J. Schoonbeek , Shao-Hsuan Hung , Jacek Kustra , Peter H. N. de With , Fons van der Sommen

Currently, programming instructors continually face the problem of helping to debug students' programs. Although there currently exist a number of debuggers and debugging tools in various platforms, most of these projects or products are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-10-02 Abdullah Mohd Zin , Syed Ahmad Aljunid , Zarina Shukur , Mohd Jan Nordin

Debugging is an unavoidable and most crucial aspect of software development life cycle. Especially when it comes the turn of embedded one. Due to the requirements of low code size and less resource consumption, the embedded softwares need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee , Banibrata Bag

Background: Machine Learning (ML) systems rely on data to make predictions, the systems have many added components compared to traditional software systems such as the data processing pipeline, serving pipeline, and model training. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Tuan Dung Lai , Anj Simmons , Scott Barnett , Jean-Guy Schneider , Rajesh Vasa

Object-Oriented programming is frequently challenging for undergraduate Computer Science students, particularly in understanding abstract concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Although the literature outlines…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andre Menolli , Bruno Strik

Fault localization is an imperative method in fault tolerance in a distributed environment that designs a blueprint for continuing the ongoing process even when one or many modules are non-functional. Visualizing a distributed environment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Narayanaa S R , Sivaranjan M , Lekshmi R S

Software bugs in cloud management systems often cause erratic behavior, hindering detection, and recovery of failures. As a consequence, the failures are not timely detected and notified, and can silently propagate through the system. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Angela Scibelli

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation has gained significant attention in recent years. Existing methods often aim to improve the quality of generated code by incorporating additional contextual information or guidance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sangyeop Yeo , Seung-won Hwang , Yu-Seung Ma

This paper introduces DDMIN-LOC, a technique that combines Delta Debugging Minimization (DDMIN) with Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL). It can be applied to programs taking string inputs, even when only a single failure-inducing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Charaka Geethal Kapugama

Fault tolerance is a critical aspect of modern computing systems, ensuring correct functionality in the presence of faults. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of fault tolerance methods and software-based mitigation techniques in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Mohammadreza Amel Solouki , Shaahin Angizi , Massimo Violante

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant improvement in RTL code generation. Despite the advances, the generated code is often riddled with common vulnerabilities and weaknesses (CWEs) that can slip by untrained eyes. Attackers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prithwish Basu Roy , Zeng Wang , Anatolii Chuvashlov , Weihua Xiao , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri

Training set bugs are flaws in the data that adversely affect machine learning. The training set is usually too large for man- ual inspection, but one may have the resources to verify a few trusted items. The set of trusted items may not by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Xuezhou Zhang , Xiaojin Zhu , Stephen J. Wright

Fault localization is a critical step in software maintenance. Yet, many existing techniques, such as Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL), rely heavily on the availability of fault-triggering tests to be effective. In practice,…

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