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Large language models can generate plausible code, but remain brittle for formal verification in proof assistants such as Lean. A central scalability challenge is that verified synthesis requires consistent artifacts across several coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Robert Joseph George , Carson Eisenach , Udaya Ghai , Dominique Perrault-Joncas , Anima Anandkumar , Dean Foster

Use case scenarios are created during the analysis phase to specify software system requirements and can also be used for creating system level test cases. Using use cases to get system tests has several benefits including test design at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-12-14 Muhammad Touseef , Zahid Hussain Qaisar

One problem with load test quality, almost always overlooked, is the potential for the load generator's user thread pool to sync up and dispatch queries in bunches rather than independently from each other like real users initiate their…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-04-01 James F Brady

The rapid advancement of fake voice generation technology has ignited a race with detection systems, creating an urgent need to secure the audio ecosystem. However, existing benchmarks suffer from a critical limitation: they typically…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xutao Mao , Ke Li , Cameron Baird , Ezra Xuanru Tao , Dan Lin

Code generation models can help improve many common software tasks ranging from code completion to defect prediction. Most of the existing benchmarks for code generation LLMs focus on code authoring or code completion. Surprisingly, there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Kush Jain , Gabriel Synnaeve , Baptiste Rozière

Due to the increasing volume, volatility, and diversity of data in virtually all areas of our lives, the ability to detect duplicates in potentially linked data sources is more important than ever before. However, while research is already…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Fabian Panse , Wolfram Wingerath , Benjamin Wollmer

Unit level test has been widely recognized as an important approach to improve the software quality, as it can expose bugs earlier during the development phase. However, manual unit level test development is often tedious and insufficient.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ning Luo , Linlin Zhang

Testing is an essential quality activity in the software development process. Usually, a software system is tested on several levels, starting with unit testing that checks the smallest parts of the code until acceptance testing, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Neves , Oscar Campos , Robson Santos , Italo Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Type errors in Python often lead to runtime failures, posing significant challenges to software reliability and developer productivity. Existing static analysis tools aim to detect such errors without execution but frequently suffer from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Chen Yang , Ziqi Wang , Yanjie Jiang , Lin Yang , Yuteng Zheng , Jianyi Zhou , Junjie Chen

Unit testing is crucial for software development and maintenance. Effective unit testing ensures and improves software quality, but writing unit tests is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recent studies have proposed deep learning (DL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junwei Zhang , Xing Hu , Shan Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , Shanping Li

Many automatic unit test generation tools that can generate unit test cases with high coverage over a program have been proposed. However, most of these tools are ineffective on deep learning (DL) frameworks due to the fact that many of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arunkaleeshwaran Narayanan , Nima Shiri harzevili , Junjie Wang , Lin Shi , Moshi Wei , Song Wang

Automated unit test generation aims to improve software quality while reducing the time and effort required for creating tests manually. However, existing techniques primarily generate regression oracles that predicate on the implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Adam Bodicoat , Gunel Jahangirova , Valerio Terragni

Typically, a conventional unit test (CUT) verifies the expected behavior of the unit under test through one specific input / output pair. In contrast, a parameterized unit test (PUT) receives a set of inputs as arguments, and contains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Deepika Tiwari , Yogya Gamage , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

Generating fake data is an essential dimension of modern software testing, as demonstrated by the number and significance of data faking libraries. Yet, developers of faking libraries cannot keep up with the wide range of data to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Benoit Baudry , Khashayar Etemadi , Sen Fang , Yogya Gamage , Yi Liu , Yuxin Liu , Martin Monperrus , Javier Ron , André Silva , Deepika Tiwari

Combinatorial Testing (CT) tools are essential to test properly a wide range of systems (train systems, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), autonomous driving systems, etc). While there is an active research community working on developing CT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Carlos Ansotegui , Eduard Torres

Deployment of distributed systems sets high requirements for procedures for the security testing of these systems. This work introduces: (1) a list of typical threats based on standards and actual practices; (2) an extended six-layered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Vladimir A. Khlevnoy , Andrey A. Shchurov

Achieving error rates that meet or exceed the fault-tolerance threshold is a central goal for quantum computing experiments, and measuring these error rates using randomized benchmarking is now routine. However, direct comparison between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Richard Kueng , David M. Long , Andrew C. Doherty , Steven T. Flammia

Black-box runtime verification methods for cyber-physical systems can be used to discover errors in systems whose inputs and outputs are expressed as signals over time and their correctness requirements are specified in a temporal logic.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jarkko Peltomäki , Ivan Porres

In order to alleviate data sparsity and overfitting problems in maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) for sequence prediction tasks, we propose the Generative Bridging Network (GBN), in which a novel bridge module is introduced to assist the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Wenhu Chen , Guanlin Li , Shuo Ren , Shujie Liu , Zhirui Zhang , Mu Li , Ming Zhou

We report on Just-in-Time catching test generation at Meta, designed to prevent bugs in large scale backend systems of hundreds of millions of line of code. Unlike traditional hardening tests, which pass at generation time, catching tests…