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Deep learning had been used in program analysis for the prediction of hidden software defects using software defect datasets, security vulnerabilities using generative adversarial networks as well as identifying syntax errors by learning a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Venkatesh Theru Mohan , Ali Jannesari

In seeking to understand the processes enacted during software development, an increasing number of studies have mined software repositories. In particular, studies have endeavored to show how teams resolve software defects. Although much…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Sherlock A. Licorish , Stephen G. MacDonell

Recommender systems use algorithms to provide users with product or service recommendations. Recently, these systems have been using machine learning algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence. However, choosing a suitable machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ivens Portugal , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

To coupe with the difficulties in the process of inspection and classification of defects in Printed Circuit Board (PCB), other researchers have proposed many methods. However, few of them published their dataset before, which hindered the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Weibo Huang , Peng Wei

Researchers in empirical software engineering often make claims based on observable data such as defect reports. Unfortunately, in many cases, these claims are generalized beyond the data sets that have been evaluated. Will the researcher's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Abdul Ali Bangash , Hareem Sahar , Abram Hindle , Karim Ali

Software is used in critical applications in our day-to-day life and it is important to ensure its correctness. One popular approach to assess correctness is to evaluate software on tests. If a test fails, it indicates a fault in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Concurrent programs are difficult to test due to their inherent non-determinism. To address this problem, testing often requires the exploration of thread schedules of a program; this can be time-consuming when applied to real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tingting Yu , Wei Wen , Xue Han , Jane Hayes

In the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of our daily lives due to major advances in Machine Learning (ML) techniques. In spite of an explosive growth in the raw AI technology and in consumer facing applications on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-18 P. Santhanam

Collecting quality data from software projects can be time-consuming and expensive. Hence, some researchers explore "unsupervised" approaches to quality prediction that does not require labelled data. An alternate technique is to use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

The increasing complexity of today's software requires the contribution of thousands of developers. This complex collaboration structure makes developers more likely to introduce defect-prone changes that lead to software faults.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jonathan Bryan , Pablo Moriano

Bugs are inescapable during software development due to frequent code changes, tight deadlines, etc.; therefore, it is important to have tools to find these errors. One way of performing bug identification is to analyze the characteristics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Gyimesi , Gábor Gyimesi , Zoltán Tóth , Tibor Gyimóthy

Roboticists usually test new control software in simulation environments before evaluating its functionality on real-world robots. Simulations reduce the risk of damaging the hardware and can significantly increase the development process's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Felix Sygulla , Daniel Rixen

The dynamic software development organizations optimize the usage of resources to deliver the products in the specified time with the fulfilled requirements. This requires prevention or repairing of the faults as quick as possible. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-12-14 R Bremananth , R Thushara

In the current competitive world, industrial companies seek to manufacture products of higher quality which can be achieved by increasing reliability, maintainability and thus the availability of products. On the other hand, improvement in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Golriz Amooee , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli , Malihe Bagheri-Dehnavi

Context: Software defect prediction utilizes historical data to direct software quality assurance resources to potentially problematic components. Effort-aware (EA) defect prediction prioritizes more bug-like components by taking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yuchen Guo , Martin Shepperd , Ning Li

Requirements elicitation is an important phase of any software project: the errors in requirements are more expensive to fix than the errors introduced at later stages of software life cycle. Nevertheless, many projects do not devote…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Maria Naumcheva

Data generation and analysis is a fundamental aspect of many industries and disciplines, from strategic decision making in business to research in the physical and social sciences. However, data generated using software and algorithms can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ernesto Giralt Hernández

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive results in various fields, including software vulnerability detection. Nonetheless, using machine learning to identify software vulnerabilities presents new challenges,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser

The recent advancement of artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), has significantly impacted software engineering research, including bug report analysis. ML aims to automate the understanding, extraction, and correlation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Guoming Long , Jingzhi Gong , Hui Fang , Tao Chen

Data-driven software engineering processes, such as vulnerability prediction heavily rely on the quality of the data used. In this paper, we observe that it is infeasible to obtain a noise-free security defect dataset in practice. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Huaming Chen