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Many users and contributors of large open-source projects report software defects or enhancement requests (known as bug reports) to the issue-tracking systems. However, they sometimes report issues that have already been reported. First,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Clare E. Laney , Andrew Barovic , Armin Moin

Recent findings suggest that Information Retrieval (IR)-based bug localization techniques do not perform well if the bug report lacks rich structured information (eg relevant program entity names). Conversely, excessive structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Software crash bugs cause unexpected program behaviors or even abrupt termination, thus demanding immediate resolution. However, resolving crash bugs can be challenging due to their complex root causes, which can originate from issues in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xueying Du , Mingwei Liu , Hanlin Wang , Juntao Li , Xin Peng , Yiling Lou

The availability of debug information for optimized executables can largely ease crucial tasks such as crash analysis. Source-level debuggers use this information to display program state in terms of source code, allowing users to reason on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Cristian Assaiante , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leonardo Querzoni

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

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

Context: An increasing number of software systems are written in multiple programming languages (PLs), which are called multi-programming-language (MPL) systems. MPL bugs (MPLBs) refers to the bugs whose resolution involves multiple PLs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zengyang Li , Jiabao Ji , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Hui Liu

Bug prediction is the process of training a machine learning model on software metrics and fault information to predict bugs in software entities. While feature selection is an important step in building a robust prediction model, there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Haidar Osman , Mohammad Ghafari , Oscar Nierstrasz

Bug reports help software development teams enhance software quality, yet their utility is often compromised by unclear or incomplete information. This issue not only hinders developers' ability to quickly understand and resolve bugs but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jagrit Acharya , Gouri Ginde

Game development has become an extremely competitive multi-billion-dollar industry. Many games fail even after years of development efforts because of game-breaking bugs that disrupt the game-play and ruin the player experience. The goal of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nigar Azhar Butt , Salman Sherin , Muhammad Uzair Khan , Atif Aftab Jilani , Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal

Fault localization is a critical step in software maintenance. Yet, many existing techniques, such as Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL), rely heavily on the availability of fault-triggering tests to be effective. In practice,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Md Nakhla Rafi , Lorena Barreto Simedo Pacheco , An Ran Chen , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun , Chen

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

Accurate project localization (e.g., files and functions) for issue resolution is a critical first step in software maintenance. However, existing benchmarks for issue localization, such as SWE-Bench and LocBench, are limited. They focus…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zejun Zhang , Jian Wang , Qingyun Yang , Yifan Pan , Yi Tang , Yi Li , Zhenchang Xing , Tian Zhang , Xuandong Li , Guoan Zhang

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

Automated software debugging is a crucial task for improving the productivity of software developers. Many neural-based techniques have been proven effective for debugging-related tasks such as bug localization and program repair (or bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Nghi D. Q. Bui , Yue Wang , Steven Hoi

As quantum programming evolves, more and more quantum programming languages are being developed. As a result, debugging and testing quantum programs have become increasingly important. While bug fixing in classical programs has come a long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Junjie Luo , Pengzhan Zhao , Zhongtao Miao , Shuhan Lan , Jianjun Zhao

Fuzzing has been studied and applied ever since the 1990s. Automated and continuous fuzzing has recently been applied also to open source software projects, including the Linux and BSD kernels. This paper concentrates on the practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Jukka Ruohonen , Kalle Rindell

Recent findings from a user study suggest that IR-based bug localization techniques do not perform well if the bug report lacks rich structured information such as relevant program entity names. On the contrary, excessive structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi