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The advance in machine learning (ML)-driven natural language process (NLP) points a promising direction for automatic bug fixing for software programs, as fixing a buggy program can be transformed to a translation task. While software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wenshuo Wang , Chen Wu , Liang Cheng , Yang Zhang

This study reports the results of applying the cross-lingual bug localization approach proposed by Xia et al. to industrial software projects. To realize cross-lingual bug localization, we applied machine translation to non-English…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shinpei Hayashi , Takashi Kobayashi , Tadahisa Kato

Software Fault Localization refers to the activity of finding code elements (e.g., statements) that are related to a software failure. The state-of-the-art fault localization techniques, however, produce coarse-grained results that can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Shangwen Wang , Kui Liu , Bo Lin , Li Li , Jacques Klein , Xiaoguang Mao , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Managing large numbers of incoming bug reports and finding the most critical issues in hardware development is time consuming, but crucial in order to reduce development costs. In this paper, we present an approach to predict the time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thi Thu Hang Do , Markus Dobler , Niklas Kühl

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to bugs, just like other types of software systems. A significant uptick in using DNN, and its applications in wide-ranging areas, including safety-critical systems, warrant extensive research on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ali Ghanbari , Deepak-George Thomas , Muhammad Arbab Arshad , Hridesh Rajan

Bug localization remains a key bottleneck in downstream software maintenance tasks, including root cause analysis, triage, and automated program repair (APR), despite recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based repair systems.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Md Afif Al Mamun , Gias Uddin

Software bugs claim approximately 50% of development time and cost the global economy billions of dollars. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Parvez Mahbub , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Software debugging is a very time-consuming process, which is even worse for multi-threaded programs, due to the non-deterministic behavior of thread-scheduling algorithms. However, the debugging time may be greatly reduced, if automatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Erickson H. da S. Alves , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Eddie B. de Lima Filho

Being light-weight and cost-effective, IR-based approaches for bug localization have shown promise in finding software bugs. However, the accuracy of these approaches heavily depends on their used bug reports. A significant number of bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Foutse Khomh , Shamima Yeasmin , Chanchal K. Roy

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

Bug severity prediction is important in software maintenance, because it helps the development teams to prioritize bugs that have a significant impact on the operation, stability and security of the system. In large software projects bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nafisha Tamanna Nice

Bug localization in object oriented program ha s always been an important issue in softeware engineering. In this paper, I propose a source level bug localization technique for object oriented embedded programs. My proposed technique,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Partha Pratim Ray

Software bugs require developers to exert significant effort to identify and resolve them, often consuming about one-third of their time. Bug localization, the process of pinpointing the exact source code files that need modification, is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Partha Chakraborty , Mahmoud Alfadel , Meiyappan Nagappan

Questions and Answering forums such as Stack Overflow play an important role in supporting software developers in finding answers to queries related to issues such as software errors and bugs. However, searching through a large set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fouzi Harrag , Mokdad Khemliche

Software developers spend a significant portion of time fixing bugs in their projects. To streamline this process, bug localization approaches have been proposed to identify the source code files that are likely responsible for a particular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Partha Chakraborty , Mahmoud Alfadel , Meiyappan Nagappan

For a given software bug report, identifying an appropriate developer who could potentially fix the bug is the primary task of a bug triaging process. A bug title (summary) and a detailed description is present in most of the bug tracking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Senthil Mani , Anush Sankaran , Rahul Aralikatte

Context: Given a bug report and source code of the project, bug localization can help developers to focus on fixing probable buggy files rather than searching the entire source code repository. While existing research uses information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Shubham Sangle , Sandeep Muvva , Sridhar Chimalakonda , Karthikeyan Ponnalagu , Vijendran Gopalan Venkoparao

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

Software bugs in a production environment have an undesirable impact on quality of service, unplanned system downtime, and disruption in good customer experience, resulting in loss of revenue and reputation. Existing approaches to automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Anusha Bableshwar , Arun Ravindran , Manoj Iyer

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