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Bug finding tools can find defects in software source code us- ing an automated static analysis. This automation may be able to reduce the time spent for other testing and review activities. For this we need to have a clear understanding of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Jan Jürjens , Claudia Koller , Peter Trischberger

The main difficulty in high-dimensional anomaly detection tasks is the lack of anomalous data for training. And simply collecting anomalous data from the real world, common distributions, or the boundary of normal data manifold may face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Songmin Dai , Jide Li , Lu Wang , Congcong Zhu , Yifan Wu , Xiaoqiang Li

Background and context: Debugging is a significant and often frustrating challenge for beginner programmers. Understanding students' debugging behaviours and strategies can help to identify common difficulties and inform approaches for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Laurie Gale , Sue Sentance

Log anomaly detection has become a common practice for software engineers to analyze software system behavior. Despite significant research efforts in log anomaly detection over the past decade, it remains unclear what are practitioners'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoxue Ma , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Xiao Yu , Huiqi Zou , Zhen Yang , Federica Sarro , Earl T. Barr

Motivation: Automated bug detection in dynamically typed languages such as Python is essential for maintaining code quality. The lack of mandatory type annotations in such languages can lead to errors that are challenging to identify early…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Boqi Chen , José Antonio Hernández López , Gunter Mussbacher , Dániel Varró

Anomaly detection is the task of identifying rarely occurring (i.e. anormal or anomalous) samples that differ from almost all other samples in a dataset. As the patterns of anormal samples are usually not known a priori, this task is highly…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-30 Nicolas Thewes , Philipp Steinhauer , Patrick Trampert , Markus Pauly , Georg Schneider

Nowadays, development teams often rely on tools such as Jira or Bugzilla to manage backlogs of issues to be solved to develop or maintain software. Although they relate to many different concerns (e.g., bug fixing, new feature development,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Quentin Perez , Pierre-Antoine Jean , Christelle Urtado , Sylvain Vauttier

Identifying and resolving logic errors can be one of the most frustrating challenges for novices programmers. Unlike syntax errors, for which a compiler or interpreter can issue a message, logic errors can be subtle. In certain conditions,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Stephen MacNeil , Paul Denny , Andrew Tran , Juho Leinonen , Seth Bernstein , Arto Hellas , Sami Sarsa , Joanne Kim

Recent studies on visual anomaly detection (AD) of industrial objects/textures have achieved quite good performance. They consider an unsupervised setting, specifically the one-class setting, in which we assume the availability of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jie Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Due to the veracity and heterogeneity in network traffic, detecting anomalous events is challenging. The computational load on global servers is a significant challenge in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Our primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

This article introduces a novel method for detecting anomalies within log data from control system nodes at the European XFEL accelerator. Effective anomaly detection is crucial for providing operators with a clear understanding of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Antonin Sulc , Annika Eichler , Tim Wilksen

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

The nodes' interconnections on a social network often reflect their dependencies and information-sharing behaviors. Nevertheless, abnormal nodes, which significantly deviate from most of the network concerning patterns or behaviors, can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaotong Cheng , Setareh Maghsudi

Teaching programming to K-12 students has become essential. In this context, App Inventor is a popular block-based programming environment used by a wide audience, from K-12 to higher education, including end-users to create mobile…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Nathalia da Cruz Alves , Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim , Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck

From a safety perspective, a machine learning method embedded in real-world applications is required to distinguish irregular situations. For this reason, there has been a growing interest in the anomaly detection (AD) task. Since we cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 JuneKyu Park , Jeong-Hyeon Moon , Namhyuk Ahn , Kyung-Ah Sohn

Deep Learning (DL) is vulnerable to out-of-distribution and adversarial examples resulting in incorrect outputs. To make DL more robust, several posthoc (or runtime) anomaly detection techniques to detect (and discard) these anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saikiran Bulusu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Bo Li , Pramod K. Varshney , Dawn Song

Anomaly detection based on 3D point cloud data is an important research problem and receives more and more attention recently. Untrained anomaly detection based on only one sample is an emerging research problem motivated by real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Juan Du , Dongheng Chen

Cloud computing is ubiquitous: more and more companies are moving the workloads into the Cloud. However, this rise in popularity challenges Cloud service providers, as they need to monitor the quality of their ever-growing offerings…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Mohammad Saiful Islam , William Pourmajidi , Lei Zhang , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , Andriy Miranskyy

Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation identification, spam detection and content moderation, etc. Despite significant advances in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Feng Xiao , Jicong Fan

Detecting anomalies in link streams that represent various kinds of interactions is an important research topic with crucial applications. Because of the lack of ground truth data, proposed methods are mostly evaluated through their ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Matthieu Latapy , Stephany Rajeh