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Bug localization is a crucial aspect of software maintenance, running through the entire software lifecycle. Information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) identifies buggy code based on bug reports, expediting the bug resolution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Feifei Niu , Chuanyi Li , Kui Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo

Large language model-specific inference engines (in short as \emph{LLM inference engines}) have become a fundamental component of modern AI infrastructure, enabling the deployment of LLM-powered applications (LLM apps) across cloud and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Weichen Bi , Yixuan Zhang , Zhiyang Chen , Zhenpeng Chen , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Deep Learning (DL) applications are being used to solve problems in critical domains (e.g., autonomous driving or medical diagnosis systems). Thus, developers need to debug their systems to ensure that the expected behavior is delivered.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mohammad Wardat , Breno Dantas Cruz , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

Deep Learning (DL) is a class of machine learning algorithms that are used in a wide variety of applications. Like any software system, DL programs can have bugs. To support bug localization in DL programs, several tools have been proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ruchira Manke , Mohammad Wardat , Foutse Khomh , Hridesh Rajan

Rapid growth of applying Machine Learning (ML) in different domains, especially in safety-critical areas, increases the need for reliable ML components, i.e., a software component operating based on ML. Understanding the bugs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Florian Tambon , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used in a wide variety of applications. However, as in any software application, DNN-based apps are afflicted with bugs. Previous work observed that DNN bug fix patterns are different from traditional bug fix…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Mohammad Wardat , Breno Dantas Cruz , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Miltiadis Allamanis , Henry Jackson-Flux , Marc Brockschmidt

Checker bugs in Deep Learning (DL) libraries are critical yet not well-explored. These bugs are often concealed in the input validation and error-checking code of DL libraries and can lead to silent failures, incorrect results, or…

Natural language elements in source code, e.g., the names of variables and functions, convey useful information. However, most existing bug detection tools ignore this information and therefore miss some classes of bugs. The few existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Michael Pradel , Koushik Sen

Bugs in Scratch programs can spoil the fun and inhibit learning success. Many common bugs are the result of recurring patterns of bad code. In this paper we present a collection of common code patterns that typically hint at bugs in Scratch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Christoph Frädrich , Florian Obermüller , Nina Körber , Ute Heuer , Gordon Fraser

Providing feedback is an integral part of teaching. Most open online courses on programming make use of automated grading systems to support programming assignments and give real-time feedback. These systems usually rely on test results to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Rahul Gupta , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade

Researchers have developed numerous debugging approaches to help programmers in the debugging process, but these approaches are rarely used in practice. In this paper, we investigate how programmers debug their code and what researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising domain for the machine learning (ML) area, offering significant computational advantages over classical counterparts. With the growing interest in quantum machine learning (QML), ensuring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Pengzhan Zhao , Xiongfei Wu , Junjie Luo , Zhuo Li , Jianjun Zhao

The recent advancement of artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), has significantly impacted software engineering research, including bug report analysis. ML aims to automate the understanding, extraction, and correlation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Guoming Long , Jingzhi Gong , Hui Fang , Tao Chen

Deep Learning applications are becoming increasingly popular. Developers of deep learning systems strive to write more efficient code. Deep learning systems are constantly evolving, imposing tighter development timelines and increasing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Hadhemi Jebnoun , Md Saidur Rahman , Foutse Khomh , Biruk Asmare Muse

Deep learning (DL) has been widely applied to many domains. Unique challenges in engineering DL systems are posed by the programming paradigm shift from traditional systems to DL systems, and performance is one of the challenges.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Junming Cao , Bihuan Chen , Chao Sun , Longjie Hu , Shuaihong Wu , Xin Peng

TypeScript has rapidly become a popular language for modern web development, yet its effect on software faults remains poorly understood. This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of bugs in real-world TypeScript projects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 TianYi Tang , Saba Alimadadi , Nick Sumner

In NLP, reusing pre-trained models instead of training from scratch has gained popularity; however, NLP models are mostly black boxes, very large, and often require significant resources. To ease, models trained with large corpora are made…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Rangeet Pan , Sumon Biswas , Mohna Chakraborty , Breno Dantas Cruz , Hridesh Rajan

This paper proposes a supervised machine learning approach for predicting the root cause of a given bug report. Knowing the root cause of a bug can help developers in the debugging process - either directly or indirectly by choosing proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Background: Developers spend a significant amount of time and efforts to localize bugs. In the literature, many researchers proposed state-of-the-art bug localization models to help developers localize bugs easily. The practitioners, on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Sravya Polisetty , Andriy Miranskyy , Ayse Bener