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Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is labor-intensive, especially for strongly typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automated approaches. Traditional…

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We present a framework for merging unit tests for autonomous systems. Typically, it is intractable to test an autonomous system for every scenario in its operating environment. The question of whether it is possible to design a single test…

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Mocking allows testing program units in isolation. A developer who writes tests with mocks faces two challenges: design realistic interactions between a unit and its environment; and understand the expected impact of these interactions on…

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Software testing is still a manual process in many industries, despite the recent improvements in automated testing techniques. As a result, test cases are often specified in natural language by different employees and many redundant test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Markos Viggiato , Dale Paas , Chris Buzon , Cor-Paul Bezemer

In software engineering, impact analysis involves predicting the software elements (e.g., modules, classes, methods) potentially impacted by a change in the source code. Impact analysis is required to optimize the testing effort. In this…

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Unit testing is crucial for detecting bugs in individual program units but consumes time and effort. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating unit test cases. However, several problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Siqi Gu , Quanjun Zhang , Kecheng Li , Chunrong Fang , Fangyuan Tian , Liuchuan Zhu , Jianyi Zhou , Zhenyu Chen

Continuous integration is an indispensable step of modern software engineering practices to systematically manage the life cycles of system development. Developing a machine learning model is no difference - it is an engineering process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Cedric Renggli , Bojan Karlaš , Bolin Ding , Feng Liu , Kevin Schawinski , Wentao Wu , Ce Zhang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is a particularly challenging variant of continual learning, where the goal is to learn to discriminate between all classes presented in an incremental fashion. Existing approaches often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Michał Zając , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Controllable Text Generation (CTG) has obtained great success due to its fine-grained generation ability obtained by focusing on multiple attributes. However, most existing CTG researches overlook how to utilize the attribute entanglement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Shiyang Lin , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen

Currently, generating high-level test cases described in natural language from requirement documents is performed manually. In the industry, including companies specializing in software testing, there is a significant demand for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Satoshi Masuda , Satoshi Kouzawa , Kyousuke Sezai , Hidetoshi Suhara , Yasuaki Hiruta , Kunihiro Kudou

Unit tests are widely used to check source code quality, but they can be too coarse-grained or ill-suited for testing individual program statements. We introduce inline tests to make it easier to check for faults in statements. We motivate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Yu Liu , Pengyu Nie , Owolabi Legunsen , Milos Gligoric

Current research on class-incremental learning primarily focuses on single-label classification tasks. However, real-world applications often involve multi-label scenarios, such as image retrieval and medical imaging. Therefore, this paper…

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Software systems typically consist of various interacting components and units. While these components can be tested and shown to work correctly in isolation, when integrated and start interacting with each other, they may fail to produce…

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The correctness of compilers is instrumental in the safety and reliability of other software systems, as bugs in compilers can produce programs that do not reflect the intents of programmers. Compilers are complex software systems due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Search-based test generators are effective at producing unit tests with high coverage. However, such automatically generated tests have no meaningful test and variable names, making them hard to understand and interpret by developers. On…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Matteo Biagiola , Gianluca Ghislotti , Paolo Tonella

Cross-lingual Text Classification (CLC) consists of automatically classifying, according to a common set C of classes, documents each written in one of a set of languages L, and doing so more accurately than when naively classifying each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Andrea Esuli , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

Precise, correct feedback is crucial for effectively training large language models (LLMs) in code reinforcement learning. However, synthesizing high-quality test cases remains a profoundly challenging and unsolved problem. In this work, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jia Fu , Xinyu Yang , Hongzhi Zhang , Yahui Liu , Jingyuan Zhang , Qi Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou

The reuse of historical clinical trial data has significant potential to accelerate medical research and drug development. However, interoperability challenges, particularly with missing medical codes, hinders effective data integration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Nabeel Seedat , Caterina Tozzi , Andrea Hita Ardiaca , Mihaela van der Schaar , James Weatherall , Adam Taylor

Testing is widely recognized as an important stage of the software development lifecycle. Effective software testing can provide benefits such as bug finding, preventing regressions, and documentation. In terms of documentation, unit tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Elizabeth Dinella , Gabriel Ryan , Todd Mytkowicz , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

Unit testing is essential for verifying the functional correctness of code modules (e.g., classes, methods), but manually writing unit tests is often labor-intensive and time-consuming. Unit tests generated by tools that employ traditional…

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