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Even competent programmers make mistakes. Automatic verification can detect errors, but leaves the frustrating task of finding the erroneous line of code to the user. This paper presents an automatic approach for identifying potential error…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Robert Koenighofer , Ronald Toegl , Roderick Bloem

Code review plays an important role in software quality control. A typical review process would involve a careful check of a piece of code in an attempt to find defects and other quality issues/violations. One type of issues that may impact…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Xiaofeng Han , Amjed Tahir , Peng Liang , Steve Counsell , Yajing Luo

Architecture erosion has a detrimental effect on maintenance and evolution, as the implementation deviates from the intended architecture. Detecting symptoms of erosion, particularly architectural violations, at an early stage is crucial.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruiyin Li , Peng Liang , Paris Avgeriou

Use case modeling is very popular to represent the functionality of the system to be developed, and it consists of two parts: use case diagram and use case description. Use case descriptions are written in structured natural language (NL),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yotaro Seki , Shinpei Hayashi , Motoshi Saeki

Ensuring software quality remains a critical challenge in complex and dynamic development environments, where software defects can result in significant operational and financial risks. This paper proposes an innovative framework for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mohsen Hesamolhokama , Amirahmad Shafiee , Mohammadreza Ahmaditeshnizi , Mohammadamin Fazli , Jafar Habibi

Background: Machine learning algorithms are widely used to predict defect prone software components. In this literature, computational experiments are the main means of evaluation, and the credibility of results depends on experimental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Giuseppe Destefanis , Leila Yousefi , Martin Shepperd , Allan Tucker , Stephen Swift , Steve Counsell , Mahir Arzoky

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in automating software engineering tasks, particularly in code generation. However, current evaluation benchmarks, which primarily focus on accuracy, fall short in assessing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alejandro Velasco , Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , Luftar Rahman Alif , David N. Palacio , Denys Poshyvanyk

Code Smell Detection (CSD) plays a crucial role in improving software quality and maintainability. And Deep Learning (DL) techniques have emerged as a promising approach for CSD due to their superior performance. However, the effectiveness…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Fengji Zhang , Zexian Zhang , Jacky Wai Keung , Xiangru Tang , Zhen Yang , Xiao Yu , Wenhua Hu

Defects are common in software systems and can potentially cause various problems to software users. Different methods have been developed to quickly predict the most likely locations of defects in large code bases. Most of them focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Hoa Khanh Dam , Trang Pham , Shien Wee Ng , Truyen Tran , John Grundy , Aditya Ghose , Taeksu Kim , Chul-Joo Kim

Code smells signal violations of design principles that degrade the internal quality of evolving software systems. Although many tools detect such anomalies using static metrics, they often ignore the development context in which smells…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Matheus dos Santos Viegas , Adrian Gabriel Keller dos Santos , Kleinner Farias , Robson Keemps da Silva

Standard automatic methods for recognizing problematic development commits can be greatly improved via the incremental application of human+artificial expertise. In this approach, called EMBLEM, an AI tool first explore the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Huy Tu , Zhe Yu , Tim Menzies

Real-time gas classification is an essential issue and challenge in applications such as food and beverage quality control, accident prevention in industrial environments, for instance. In recent years, the Deep Learning (DL) models have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Juan C. Rodriguez Gamboa , Adenilton J. da Silva , Ismael C. S. Araujo , Eva Susana Albarracin E. , Cristhian M. Duran A

Software testing is a critical activity to ensure that software complies with its specification. However, current software testing activities tend not to be completely effective when applied in specific software domains in Virtual Reality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Stevao A. Andrade , Fatima L. S. Nunes , Marcio E. Delamaro

This paper describes an approach for user (e.g. SW architect) assisting in software processes. The approach observes the user's action and tries to predict his next step. For this we use approaches in the area of machine learning (sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-07 Michael Deynet

The semiconductor industry is one of the most technology-evolving and capital-intensive market sectors. Effective inspection and metrology are necessary to improve product yield, increase product quality and reduce costs. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Angzhi Fan , Yu Huang , Fei Xu , Sthitie Bom

In this paper, we present a novel approach to improving software quality and efficiency through a Large Language Model (LLM)-based model designed to review code and identify potential issues. Our proposed LLM-based AI agent model is trained…

We introduce a novel application of Support Vector Machines (SVM), an important Machine Learning algorithm, to determine the beginning and end of recessions in real time. Nowcasting, "forecasting" a condition about the present time because…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-06-28 Alexander James , Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa , Xiao Qiao

\underline{Context:} Logging is a fundamental yet complex practice in software engineering, essential for monitoring, debugging, and auditing software systems. With the increasing integration of machine learning (ML) components into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Patrick Loic Foalem , Leuson Da Silva , Foutse Khomh , Ettore Merlo , Heng Li

Automated deployment and management of Cloud applications relies on descriptions of their deployment topologies, often referred to as Infrastructure Code. As the complexity of applications and their deployment models increases, developers…

The purpose of this report is in examining the generalization performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a tool for pattern recognition and object classification. The work is motivated by the growing popularity of the method that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Eugene Borovikov