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As contemporary microservice systems become increasingly popular and complex-often comprising hundreds or even thousands of fine-grained, interdependent subsystems-they are facing more frequent failures. Ensuring system reliability thus…

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The increasing complexity of modern software systems has made understanding their behavior increasingly challenging, driving the need for explainability to improve transparency and user trust. Traditional documentation is often outdated or…

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Accurately predicting topologically correct masks remains a difficult task for general segmentation models, which often produce fragmented or disconnected outputs. Fixing these artifacts typically requires hand-crafted refinement rules or…

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Software engineering agents are increasingly deployed in evaluable engineering environments, yet post-failure recovery remains costly, manual, and ad hoc. Existing systems expose traces or generate follow-up feedback, but they do not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenyu Zhao , Shenglin Zhang , Yihang Lin , Wenwei Gu , Zhimin Chen , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan , Minghua Ma

Automated Program Repair (APR) is an emerging research field. Many APR techniques, for different programming language and platforms, have been proposed and evaluated on several Benchmarks. However, for our best knowledge, there not exists a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Larissa Azevedo , Altino Dantas , Celso G. Camilo-Junior

Automatic crash reporting systems have become a de-facto standard in software development. These systems monitor target software, and if a crash occurs they send details to a backend application. Later on, these reports are aggregated and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Aleksandr Khvorov , Roman Vasiliev , George Chernishev , Irving Muller Rodrigues , Dmitrij Koznov , Nikita Povarov

Bug reports document unexpected behaviors in software, enabling developers to understand, validate, and fix bugs. Unfortunately, a significant portion of bug reports is of low quality, which poses challenges for developers in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junayed Mahmud

Traditional banks face significant challenges in digital transformation, primarily due to legacy system constraints and fragmented ownership. Recent incidents show that such fragmentation often results in superficial incident resolutions,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Siyuan Jin , Zhendong Bei , Bichao Chen , Yong Xia

Automatically reproducing Android app crashes from textual bug reports is challenging, particularly when the reports are incomplete and the modern UI exhibits high combinatorial complexity. Existing approaches based solely on reinforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengyu Chen , Zhaoyi Meng , Wenxiang Zhao , Wansen Wang , Wenchao Huang , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong , Yan Xiong

Code agents are advancing rapidly, but debugging them is becoming increasingly difficult. As frameworks orchestrate parallel tool calls and multi-stage workflows over complex tasks, making the agent's state transitions and error propagation…

The source code of Function as a Service (FaaS) applications is constantly being refined. To detect if a source code change introduces a significant performance regression, the traditional benchmarking approach evaluates both the old and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Martin Grambow , Tim Dockenfuß , Trever Schirmer , Nils Japke , David Bermbach

Mobile apps have become ubiquitous. For app developers, it is a key priority to ensure their apps' correctness and reliability. However, many apps still suffer from occasional to frequent crashes, weakening their competitive edge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Lingling Fan , Ting Su , Sen Chen , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu , Geguang Pu , Zhendong Su

Facebook operates a family of services used by over two billion people daily on a huge variety of mobile devices. Many devices are configured to upload crash reports should the app crash for any reason. Engineers monitor and triage millions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Rebecca Qian , Yang Yu , Wonhee Park , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Stephen Fink , Satish Chandra

The open source development community consists of both paid and volunteer developers as well as new and experienced users. Previous work has applied social network analysis (SNA) to open source communities and has demonstrated value in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Feng Jiang , Jiemin Wang , Abram Hindle , Mario A. Nascimento

Effective root cause analysis (RCA) is vital for swiftly restoring services, minimizing losses, and ensuring the smooth operation and management of complex systems. Previous data-driven RCA methods, particularly those employing causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lecheng Zheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingrui He , Haifeng Chen

Fine-tuning tabular foundation models (TFMs) under data scarcity is challenging, as early stopping on even scarcer validation data often fails to capture true generalization performance. We propose CausalMixFT, a method that enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Magnus Bühler , Lennart Purucker , Frank Hutter

Crash consistency is essential for applications that must persist data. Crash-consistency testing has been commonly applied to find crash-consistency bugs in applications. The crash-state space grows exponentially as the number of…

Mobile cellular network operators spend nearly a quarter of their revenue on network maintenance and management. A significant portion of that budget is spent on resolving faults diagnosed in the system that disrupt or degrade cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shruti Bothe , Usama Masood , Hasan Farooq , Ali Imran

Disaster scenarios can disconnect entire cities from the core network (CN), isolating base stations (BSs) and disrupting the Internet connection of app services for many users. Such a disruption is particularly disastrous when it affects…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Leon Würsching , Matthias Hollick

The art of finding software vulnerabilities has been covered extensively in the literature and there is a huge body of work on this topic. In contrast, the intentional insertion of exploitable, security-critical bugs has received little…

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