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Their highly adaptive nature and the combinatorial explosion of possible configurations makes testing context-oriented programs hard. We propose a methodology to automate the generation of test scenarios for developers of feature-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Pierre Martou , Kim Mens , Benoît Duhoux , Axel Legay

We introduce EvoGit, a decentralized multi-agent framework for collaborative software development driven by autonomous code evolution. EvoGit deploys a population of independent coding agents, each proposing edits to a shared codebase…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Beichen Huang , Ran Cheng , Kay Chen Tan

Sentiment analysis (SA) is a task related to understanding people's feelings in written text; the starting point would be to identify the polarity level (positive, neutral or negative) of a given text, moving on to identify emotions or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Mario Graff , Sabino Miranda-Jiménez , Eric S. Tellez , Daniela Moctezuma

While LLM-based agents have shown promise for deep research, most existing approaches rely on fixed workflows that struggle to adapt to real-world, open-ended queries. Recent work therefore explores self-evolution by allowing agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Shuo Zhang , Chaofa Yuan , Ryan Guo , Xiaomin Yu , Rui Xu , Zhangquan Chen , Zinuo Li , Zhi Yang , Shuhao Guan , Zhenheng Tang , Sen Hu , Liwen Zhang , Ronghao Chen , Huacan Wang

Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) has seen several success stories in academia and industry. The effectiveness of a search algorithm at solving a software engineering problem strongly depends on how such algorithm can navigate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

We present EvoSort, a general-purpose adaptive parallel parallel sorting framework accessible at the Python level. EvoSort employs a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to automatically discover and refine critical parameters, including insertion sort…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Shashank Raj , Kalyanmoy Deb

REST APIs are widely used in industry, in all different kinds of domains. An example is Volkswagen AG, a German automobile manufacturer. Established testing approaches for REST APIs are time consuming, and require expertise from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Andrea Arcuri , Alexander Poth , Olsi Rrjolli , Philip Garrett , Juan P. Galeotti

LLM-based agents depend on effective tool-use policies to solve complex tasks, yet optimizing these policies remains challenging due to delayed supervision and the difficulty of credit assignment in long-horizon trajectories. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shuo Yang , Soyeon Caren Han , Xueqi Ma , Yan Li , Mohammad Reza Ghasemi Madani , Eduard Hovy

With the development of code generation techniques, selecting the correct code solution from multiple candidate solutions has become a crucial task. This study proposes AutoTest, a novel technique that combines automated test case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Zhihua Duan , Jialin Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, including programming, planning, and decision-making. However, their performance often degrades when faced with highly complex problem instances…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yang Cheng , Zilai Wang , Weiyu Ma , Wenhui Zhu , Yue Deng , Jian Zhao

Recent work such as AlphaEvolve has shown that combining LLM-driven optimization with evolutionary search can effectively improve programs, prompts, and algorithms across domains. In this paradigm, previously evaluated solutions are reused…

LLM-driven multi-agent collaboration (MAC) systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automatic software development at the function level. However, their heavy reliance on human design limits their adaptability to the diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yue Hu , Yuzhu Cai , Yaxin Du , Xinyu Zhu , Xiangrui Liu , Zijie Yu , Yuchen Hou , Shuo Tang , Siheng Chen

Research in the area of automated test generation has seen remarkable progress in recent years, resulting in several approaches and tools for effective and efficient generation of test cases. In particular, the EvoSuite tool has been at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Fitsum Kifetew , Davide Prandi , Angelo Susi

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to a targeted task efficiently and effectively remains a fundamental challenge. Such adaptation often requires iteratively improving the model toward a targeted task, yet collecting high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ting-Wei Li , Sirui Chen , Jiaru Zou , Yingbing Huang , Tianxin Wei , Jingrui He , Hanghang Tong

In recent years, the landscape of software threats has become significantly more dynamic and distributed. Security vulnerabilities are no longer discovered and shared only through formal channels such as public vulnerability databases or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengwei Liu , Wenbo Guo , Yuxin Zhang , Limin Wang , Sen Chen , Lei Bu , Yang Liu

This paper presents EvolveMT for efficiently combining multiple machine translation (MT) engines. The proposed system selects the output from a single engine for each segment by utilizing online learning techniques to predict the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Shreyas Sharma , Hassan Sawaf

The European Space Agency (ESA) uses an engine to perform tests in the Ground Segment infrastructure, specially the Operational Simulator. This engine uses many different tools to ensure the development of regression testing infrastructure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Ulisses Araujo Costa , Daniela da Cruz , Pedro Rangel Henriques

Working with complex, high-level MOEA meta-models such as Multiobjec-tive Optimization Hierarchic Genetic Strategy (MO-mHGS) with multi-deme support usually requires dedicated implementation and configuration for each internal (single-deme)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Michał Idzik

We argue that multi-agent test-time evolution is not single-agent evolution replicated N times. A single-agent learner can only evolve its own context and memory. A multi-agent system additionally evolves who collaborates, how they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yaolun Zhang , Tianyi Xu , Shengyu Dai , Zhenwen Shao , Qingyun Wu , Huazheng Wang

State-of-the-art search-based approaches for test case generation work at test case level, where tests are represented as sequences of statements. These approaches make use of genetic operators (i.e., mutation and crossover) that create…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Mitchell Olsthoorn , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella