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Partial penalized tests provide flexible approaches to testing linear hypotheses in high dimensional generalized linear models. However, because the estimators used in these tests are local minimizers of potentially non-convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Tate Jacobson

We propose TOPL automata as a new method for runtime verification of systems with unbounded resource generation. Paradigmatic such systems are object-oriented programs which can dynamically generate an unbounded number of fresh object…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Radu Grigore , Dino Distefano , Rasmus Lerchedahl Petersen , Nikos Tzevelekos

While CUDA has become a major parallel computing platform and programming model for general-purpose GPU computing, CUDA-induced bug patterns have not yet been well explored. In this paper, we conduct the first empirical study to reveal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mingyuan Wu , Husheng Zhou , Lingming Zhang , Cong Liu , Yuqun Zhang

Language agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding, reasoning, and executing complex tasks. However, developing robust agents presents significant challenges: substantial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Qianqian Zhang , Jiajia Liao , Heting Ying , Yibo Ma , Haozhan Shen , Jingcheng Li , Peng Liu , Lu Zhang , Chunxin Fang , Kyusong Lee , Ruochen Xu , Tiancheng Zhao

Static bug detection tools help developers detect code problems. However, it is known that they remain underutilized due to various reasons. Recent advances to incorporate static bug detectors in modern software development workflows can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Junjie Li

Common test generators fall into two categories. Generating test inputs at the unit level is fast, but can lead to false alarms when a function is called with inputs that would not occur in a system context. If a generated input at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Alexander Kampmann , Andreas Zeller

Acceptance testing is a validation activity performed to ensure the conformance of software systems with respect to their functional requirements. In safety critical systems, it plays a crucial role since it is enforced by software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Chunhui Wang , Fabrizio Pastore , Arda Goknil , Lionel C. Briand

We present JAttack, a framework that enables template-based testing for compilers. Using JAttack, a developer writes a template program that describes a set of programs to be generated and given as test inputs to a compiler. Such a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhiqiang Zang , Nathan Wiatrek , Milos Gligoric , August Shi

The effectiveness of a test suite in detecting faults highly depends on the correctness and completeness of its test oracles. Large Language Models (LLMs) have already demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling diverse software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Facundo Molina , Alessandra Gorla

Implementing automated unit tests is an important but time-consuming activity in software development. To assist developers in this task, many techniques for automating unit test generation have been developed. However, despite this effort,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Rangeet Pan , Myeongsoo Kim , Rahul Krishna , Raju Pavuluri , Saurabh Sinha

Type errors in Python often lead to runtime failures, posing significant challenges to software reliability and developer productivity. Existing static analysis tools aim to detect such errors without execution but frequently suffer from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Chen Yang , Ziqi Wang , Yanjie Jiang , Lin Yang , Yuteng Zheng , Jianyi Zhou , Junjie Chen

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) synergizes the retrieval of pertinent data with the generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring that the generated output is not only contextually relevant but also accurate and…

Recent advances in neural modeling for bug detection have been very promising. More specifically, using snippets of code to create continuous vectors or \textit{embeddings} has been shown to be very good at method name prediction and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jón Arnar Briem , Jordi Smit , Hendrig Sellik , Pavel Rapoport

Training large language models (LLMs) with synthetic reasoning data has become a popular approach to enhancing their reasoning capabilities, while a key factor influencing the effectiveness of this paradigm is the quality of the generated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuojie Yang , Wentao Wan , Keze Wang

We present P4Testgen, a test oracle for the P4$_{16}$ language. P4Testgen supports automatic test generation for any P4 target and is designed to be extensible to many P4 targets. It models the complete semantics of the target's…

Security testing verifies that the data and the resources of software systems are protected from attackers. Unfortunately, it suffers from the oracle problem, which refers to the challenge, given an input for a system, of distinguishing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Phu X. Mai , Fabrizio Pastore , Arda Goknil , Lionel Briand

Testing and evaluation is a critical step in the development and deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), and yet there is no systematic framework to generate testing scenario library. This study aims to provide a general…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Shuo Feng , Yiheng Feng , Chunhui Yu , Yi Zhang , Henry X. Liu

This demo presents the implementation and usage details of GASSERT, the first tool to automatically improve assertion oracles. Assertion oracles are executable boolean expressions placed inside the program that should pass (return true) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Valerio Terragni , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella , Mauro Pezzè

Semantic parsing, which converts natural language questions into logic forms, plays a crucial role in reasoning within structured environments. However, existing methods encounter two significant challenges: reliance on extensive manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiang Huang , Jiayu Shen , Shanshan Huang , Sitao Cheng , Xiaxia Wang , Yuzhong Qu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face significant performance gaps when applied to technical domains requiring precise information extraction from complex documents. Current evaluation methodologies relying on document-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Aryan Jadon , Avinash Patil , Shashank Kumar