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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on code generation. However, for complex programming tasks, generating the correct solution in one go becomes challenging, thus some prior works have designed program repair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xinyun Chen , Maxwell Lin , Nathanael Schärli , Denny Zhou

Debugging is a critical but challenging task for programmers. This paper proposes ChatDBG, an AI-powered debugging assistant. ChatDBG integrates large language models (LLMs) to significantly enhance the capabilities and user-friendliness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kyla H. Levin , Nicolas van Kempen , Emery D. Berger , Stephen N. Freund

Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Digregorio , Roberto Alessandro Bertolini , Francesco Panebianco , Mario Polino

Random testing has proven to be an effective technique for compiler validation. However, the debugging of bugs identified through random testing presents a significant challenge due to the frequent occurrence of duplicate test programs that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xintong Zhou , Zhenyang Xu , Yongqiang Tian , Chengnian Sun

The task of finding the best developer to fix a bug is called bug triage. Most of the existing approaches consider the bug triage task as a classification problem, however, classification is not appropriate when the sets of classes change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Denis Sushentsev , Aleksandr Khvorov , Roman Vasiliev , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation tasks, but their performance in tackling programming problems with complex data structures and algorithms remains suboptimal. To address this issue, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Xueyu Hu , Kun Kuang , Jiankai Sun , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu

Mutation testing has been widely accepted as an approach to guide test case generation or to assess the effectiveness of test suites. Empirical studies have shown that mutants are representative of real faults; yet they also indicated a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Michele Tufano , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Martin White , Denys Poshyvanyk

Debugging is an unavoidable and most crucial aspect of software development life cycle. Especially when it comes the turn of embedded one. Due to the requirements of low code size and less resource consumption, the embedded softwares need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee , Banibrata Bag

Determining whether a configurable software system has a performance bug or it was misconfigured is often challenging. While there are numerous debugging techniques that can support developers in this task, there is limited empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Miguel Velez , Pooyan Jamshidi , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel , Christian Kästner

Mutation testing can be used to assess the fault-detection capabilities of a given test suite. To this aim, two characteristics of mutation testing frameworks are of paramount importance: (i) they should generate mutants that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Michele Tufano , Jason Kimko , Shiya Wang , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Denys Poshyvanyk

Debugging denotes the process of detecting root causes of unexpected observable behaviors in programs, such as a program crash, an unexpected output value being produced or an assertion violation. Debugging of program errors is a difficult…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee

Distributed training is essential for scaling the training of large neural network models, such as large language models (LLMs), across thousands of GPUs. However, the complexity of distributed training programs makes them particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Haitian Jiang , Shaowei Zhu , Zhen Zhang , Zhenyu Song , Xinwei Fu , Zhen Jia , Yida Wang , Jinyang Li

Improving software performance is an important yet challenging part of the software development cycle. Today, the majority of performance inefficiencies are identified and patched by performance experts. Recent advancements in deep learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Spandan Garg , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Colin B. Clement , Neel Sundaresan , Chen Wu

Automated Program Repair (APR) has benefited from the code understanding and generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing feedback-based APR methods iteratively refine candidate patches using test execution feedback and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linhao Wu , Yifei Pei , Zhen Yang , Kainan Li , Zhonghang Lu , Hao Tan , Xiran Lyu , Jia Li , Yizhou Chen , Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Dan Hao

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

Deep learning (DL) applications, built upon a heterogeneous and complex DL stack (e.g., Nvidia GPU, Linux, CUDA driver, Python runtime, and TensorFlow), are subject to software and hardware dependencies across the DL stack. One challenge in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Kaifeng Huang , Bihuan Chen , Susheng Wu , Junmin Cao , Lei Ma , Xin Peng

Researchers have developed numerous debugging approaches to help programmers in the debugging process, but these approaches are rarely used in practice. In this paper, we investigate how programmers debug their code and what researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Locks have been widely used as an effective synchronization mechanism among processes and threads. However, we observe that a large number of false inter-thread dependencies (i.e., unnecessary lock contentions) exist during the program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Long Zheng , Xiaofei Liao , Bingsheng He , Song Wu , Hai Jin

Software analysis, debugging, and reverse engineering have a crucial impact in today's software industry. Efficient and stealthy debuggers are especially relevant for malware analysis. However, existing debugging platforms fail to address a…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation and comprehension, yet their application to complex software engineering tasks often suffers from low precision and limited interpretability. We present Repeton,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nguyen Phu Vinh , Anh Chung Hoang , Chris Ngo , Truong-Son Hy