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Robots operating in unstructured human environments inevitably encounter failures, especially in robot caregiving scenarios. While humans can often help robots recover, excessive or poorly targeted queries impose unnecessary cognitive and…

In recent years, machine learning (ML) based software systems are increasingly deployed in several critical applications, yet systematic testing of their behavior remains challenging due to complex model architectures, large input spaces,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fadel Mamar Seydou , Arnab Sharma

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in Defects4J comes with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In this paper, we report on an experiment to explore…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Romain Sommerard , Jifeng Xuan , Martin Monperrus

Human feedback can greatly accelerate robot learning, but in real-world settings, such feedback is costly and limited. Existing human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HiL-RL) methods often assume abundant feedback, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Anujith Muraleedharan , Anamika J H

This paper presents a technique for automatically constructing a fix for buggy concurrent programs: given a concurrent program that does not satisfy user-provided assertions, we infer atomic blocks that fix the program. An atomic block…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Saurabh Joshi , Akash Lal

Online Just-In-Time Software Defect Prediction (O-JIT-SDP) uses an online model to predict whether a new software change will introduce a bug or not. However, existing studies neglect the interaction of Software Quality Assurance (SQA)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xutong Liu , Yufei Zhou , Yutian Tang , Junyan Qian , Yuming Zhou

Automatically fixing software bugs is a challenging task. While recent work showed that natural language context is useful in guiding bug-fixing models, the approach required prompting developers to provide this context, which was simulated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sheena Panthaplackel , Milos Gligoric , Junyi Jessy Li , Raymond J. Mooney

Modern development environments provide a widely used auto-correction facility for quickly repairing syntactic errors. Auto-correction cannot deal with semantic errors, which are much more difficult to repair. Automated program repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Steven P. Reiss , Qi Xin

Static analysis tools are widely used to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells. Traditionally, developers must resolve these warnings manually. Because this process is tedious, developers sometimes ignore warnings, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pascal Joos , Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel

Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance is then the systematization of patch generation for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Anil Koyuncu , Kui Liu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Martin Monperrus , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

Issue resolution and bug-fixing processes are essential in the development of machine-learning libraries, similar to software development, to ensure well-optimized functions. Understanding the issue resolution and bug-fixing process of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Adekunle Ajibode , Dong Yunwei , Yang Hongji

Recently, neural networks have spread into numerous fields including many safety-critical systems. Neural networks are built (and trained) by programming in frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch. Developers apply a rich set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Richard Schumi , Jun Sun

Human-in-the-loop aims to train an accurate prediction model with minimum cost by integrating human knowledge and experience. Humans can provide training data for machine learning applications and directly accomplish tasks that are hard for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Xingjiao Wu , Luwei Xiao , Yixuan Sun , Junhang Zhang , Tianlong Ma , Liang He

We propose, BanditRepair, a system that systematically explores and assesses a set of possible runtime patches. The system is grounded on so-called bandit algorithms, that are online machine learning algorithms, designed for constantly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Thomas Durieux , Youssef Hamadi , Martin Monperrus

Debugging is difficult. Recent studies show that automatic bug localization techniques have limited usefulness. One of the reasons is that programmers typically have to understand why the program fails before fixing it. In this work, we aim…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jun Sun , Long H. Pham , Lyly Tran Thi , Jingyi Wang , Xin Peng

Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments is useful for programming education. Most works try to generate feedback to correct a student program by comparing its behavior with an instructor's reference program on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Umair Z. Ahmed , Zhiyu Fan , Jooyong Yi , Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Abhik Roychoudhury

With the rapid growth of software scale and complexity, a large number of bug reports are submitted to the bug tracking system. In order to speed up defect repair, these reports need to be accurately classified so that they can be sent to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Fanqi Meng , Xuesong Wang , Jingdong Wang , Peifang Wang

Is it possible to patch software bugs in P4 programs without human involvement? We show that this is partially possible in many cases due to advances in software testing and the structure of P4 programs. Our insight is that runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Apoorv Shukla , Kevin Hudemann , Zsolt Vági , Lily Hügerich , Georgios Smaragdakis , Stefan Schmid , Artur Hecker , Anja Feldmann

The growing need for automated and personalized feedback in programming education has led to recent interest in leveraging generative AI for feedback generation. However, current approaches tend to rely on prompt engineering techniques in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Victor-Alexandru Pădurean , Tung Phung , Nachiket Kotalwar , Michael Liut , Juho Leinonen , Paul Denny , Adish Singla

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate buggy code with complex logic errors that are challenging to diagnose. While existing LLM-based self-repair approaches conduct intensive static semantic analysis or reply on superficial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yunkun Wang , Yue Zhang , Guochang Li , Chen Zhi , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li , Shuiguang Deng
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