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Bug triaging, the task of assigning new issues to developers, is often slow and inconsistent in large projects. We present a lightweight framework that instruction-tuned large language model (LLM) with LoRA adapters and uses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Kiana Kiashemshaki , Arsham Khosravani , Alireza Hosseinpour , Arshia Akhavan

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are now widely used, simplifying the creation of complex models as well as their integration to various applications even to non DL experts. However, like any other programs, they are prone to bugs. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Florian Tambon , Amin Nikanjam , Le An , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

Bug localization is a crucial aspect of software maintenance, running through the entire software lifecycle. Information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) identifies buggy code based on bug reports, expediting the bug resolution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Feifei Niu , Chuanyi Li , Kui Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo

Large language models of code (Code-LLMs) have recently brought tremendous advances to code completion, a fundamental feature of programming assistance and code intelligence. However, most existing works ignore the possible presence of bugs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Tuan Dinh , Jinman Zhao , Samson Tan , Renato Negrinho , Leonard Lausen , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate code, but can they generate fast code for complex, real-world software systems? In this study, we investigate this question using a dataset of 65 tasks mined from performance-critical open-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Lirong Yi , Gregory Gay , Philipp Leitner

Unit testing is essential for software quality assurance, yet writing and maintaining tests remains time-consuming and error-prone. To address this challenge, researchers have proposed various techniques for automating unit test generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dianshu Liao , Xin Yin , Shidong Pan , Chao Ni , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun

Primitive types are fundamental components available in any programming language, which serve as the building blocks of data manipulation. Understanding the role of these types in source code is essential to write software. Little work has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mahfouth Alghamdi , Shinpei Hayashi , Takashi Kobayashi , Christoph Treude

Reflective systems allow their own structures to be altered from within. Here we are concerned with a style of reflection, called linguistic reflection, which is the ability of a running program to generate new program fragments and to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 G. N. C. Kirby , R. Morrison , D. W. Stemple

In NLP, reusing pre-trained models instead of training from scratch has gained popularity; however, NLP models are mostly black boxes, very large, and often require significant resources. To ease, models trained with large corpora are made…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Rangeet Pan , Sumon Biswas , Mohna Chakraborty , Breno Dantas Cruz , Hridesh Rajan

The correctness of the Solidity compiler is crucial for ensuring the security of smart contracts. However, the implementation complexity of its type system often introduces elusive defects. This paper presents the first systematic empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lantian Li , Yue Pan , Dan Wang , Jingwen Wu , Zhongxing Yu

This tool demonstration presents a research toolkit for a language model of Java source code. The target audience includes researchers studying problems at the granularity level of subroutines, statements, or variables in Java. In contrast…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chia-Yi Su , Aakash Bansal , Vijayanta Jain , Sepideh Ghanavati , Collin McMillan

Developers are widely using AI code-generation models, aiming to increase productivity and efficiency. However, there are also quality concerns regarding the AI-generated code. The generated code is produced by models trained on publicly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ruofan Gao , Amjed Tahir , Peng Liang , Teo Susnjak , Foutse Khomh

Background. Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. To cope with the problem of scarce resources, development teams can apply defect prediction to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Rainer Niedermayr , Tobias Röhm , Stefan Wagner

Automated unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing tools like EvoSuite, are capable of generating tests with high coverage. Although these generators alleviate the burden of writing unit tests, they often pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Amirhossein Deljouyi , Roham Koohestani , Maliheh Izadi , Andy Zaidman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in code completion. However, the training data used to develop these models often contain a significant amount of buggy code. Yet, it remains unclear to what extent these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Liwei Guo , Sixiang Ye , Zeyu Sun , Xiang Chen , Yuxia Zhang , Bo Wang , Jie M. Zhang , Zheng Li , Yong Liu

We present Liquid, an auto-regressive generation paradigm that seamlessly integrates visual comprehension and generation by tokenizing images into discrete codes and learning these code embeddings alongside text tokens within a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Chuofan Ma , Yuliang Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Zehuan Yuan , Song Bai , Xiang Bai

This paper advocates for the broader application of SMT solvers in everyday programming, challenging the conventional wisdom that these tools are solely for formal methods and verification. We claim that SMT solvers, when seamlessly…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Facundo Domínguez , Arnaud Spiwack

Re-using open-source software (OSS) can avoid reinventing the wheel, but failing to keep it up-to-date can lead to missing new features and persistent bugs or vulnerabilities that have already been resolved. The use of outdated OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rui Lu , Lyuye Zhang , Kaixuan Li , Min Zhang , Yixiang Chen

Detecting design pattern instances in unfamiliar codebases remains a challenging yet essential task for improving software quality and maintainability. Traditional static analysis tools often struggle with the complexity, variability, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Christian Schindler , Andreas Rausch

Detecting tricky bugs in plausible programs, those that pass existing test suites yet still contain bugs, remains a significant challenge in software testing. To address this problem, we propose TrickCatcher, an LLM-powered approach to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kaibo Liu , Zhenpeng Chen , Yiyang Liu , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Yudong Han , Yun Ma , Yihong Dong , Ge Li , Gang Huang