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In recent years, more vulnerabilities have been discovered every day, while manual vulnerability repair requires specialized knowledge and is time-consuming. As a result, many detected or even published vulnerabilities remain unpatched,…

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Execution Accuracy (EX), the widely used metric for evaluating the effectiveness of Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) solutions, is becoming increasingly unreliable. It is sensitive to syntactic variation, ignores that questions may admit…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Wenqi Pei , Shizheng Hou , Boyan Li , Han Chen , Zhichao Shi , Yuyu Luo

Multi-modal generative document parsing systems challenge traditional evaluation: unlike deterministic OCR or layout models, they often produce semantically correct yet structurally divergent outputs. Conventional metrics-CER, WER, IoU, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Renyu Li , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Yao You , Kamil Pluciński , Maximilian Operlejn , Crag Wolfe

Branching and merging are common practices in collaborative software development, increasing developer's productivity. Despite such benefits, developers need to merge software and resolve merge conflicts. While modern merge techniques can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Léuson Da Silva , Paulo Borba , Toni Maciel , Wardah Mahmood , Thorsten Berger , João Moisakis , Aldiberg Gomes , Vinícius Leite

Many cloud services provide REST API accessible to client applications. However, developers often identify specification violations only during testing, as error messages typically lack the detail necessary for effective diagnosis.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Katsuki Yamagishi , Norihiro Yoshida , Erina Makihara , Katsuro Inoue

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Christopher Bryant , Zheng Yuan , Muhammad Reza Qorib , Hannan Cao , Hwee Tou Ng , Ted Briscoe

Over the last years, software development in domains with high security demands transitioned from traditional methodologies to uniting modern approaches from software development and operations (DevOps). Key principles of DevOps gained more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Phillip Schneider , Markus Voggenreiter , Abdullah Gulraiz , Florian Matthes

Context: When an application evolves, some of the developed test cases break. Discarding broken test cases causes a significant waste of effort and leads to test suites that are less effective and have lower coverage. Test repair approaches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Javaria Imtiaz , Salman Sherin , Muhammad Uzair khan , Muhammad Zohaib Iqbal

Software debugging is tedious, time-consuming, and even error-prone by itself. So, various automated debugging techniques have been proposed in the literature to facilitate the debugging process. Automated Program Repair (APR) is one of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ali Ghanbari , Lingming Zhang

Many automated program repair techniques have been proposed for fixing bugs. Some of these techniques use the information beyond the given buggy program and test suite to improve the quality of generated patches. However, there are several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Shin Hwei Tan , Ziqiang Li , Lu Yan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in downstream software engineering tasks such as Automated Program Repair (APR). In particular, there has been a lot of research on repository-level issue-resolution benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Anvith Pabba , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

When source code or the original toolchain is unavailable, patching binaries is difficult because it requires editing low-level assembly code directly. As an alternative, one can decompile the binary, apply the patch at the source level,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Han Dai , Soumyakant Priyadarshan , Abdullah Imran , Ruoyu Wang , Antonio Bianchi

Debugging complex systems is a crucial yet time-consuming task. This paper presents the use of automata learning and testing techniques to obtain concise and informative bug descriptions. We introduce the concepts of Failure Explanations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tom Yaacov , Gera Weiss , Gal Amram , Avi Hayoun

Though many approaches have been proposed for Automated Program Repair (APR) and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in fixing bugs that require analyzing and reasoning about the logic of the buggy program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xin Yin , Chao Ni , Shaohua Wang , Zhenhao Li , Limin Zeng , Xiaohu Yang

In this paper, we do automatic correctness assessment for patches generated by program repair systems. We consider the human-written patch as ground truth oracle and randomly generate tests based on it, a technique proposed by Shamshiri et…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus

Static analysis tools, or linters, detect violation of source code conventions to maintain project readability. Those tools automatically fix specific violations while developers edit the source code. However, existing tools are designed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yuki Ueda , Takashi Ishio , Akinori Ihara , Kenichi Matsumoto

Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their prevailing event-driven nature and complex contextual features (e.g. sensors, notifications). Current automated input generation approaches for Android apps are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Error detection and correction are essential for ensuring robust and reliable operation in modern communication systems, particularly in complex transmission environments. However, discussions on these topics have largely been overlooked in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Peizheng Li , Xinyi Lin , Adnan Aijaz

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) systems play a vital role in assisting people with their daily writing tasks. However, users may sometimes come across a GEC system that initially performs well but fails to correct errors when the inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yue Zhang , Leyang Cui , Enbo Zhao , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi

Model transformations play an essential role in the Model-Driven Engineering paradigm. Writing a correct transformation program requires to be proficient with the source and target modeling languages, to have a clear understanding of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Zahra Varaminybahnemiry , Jessie Galasso , Houari Sahraoui