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Aspects of frameworks, such as inversion of control and the structure of framework applications, require developers to adjust their debugging strategies as compared to debugging sequential programs. However, the benefits and challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Zack Coker , David Gray Widder , Claire Le Goues , Christopher Bogart , Joshua Sunshine

The practice of continuous deployment has enabled companies to reduce time-to-market by increasing the rate at which software can be deployed. However, deploying more frequently bears the risk that occasionally defective changes are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Michael Lindon , Chris Sanden , Vaché Shirikian

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing research and tools from both academia and industry mainly relied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lyuye Zhang , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Lida Zhao , Chong Wang , Yang Liu

Regression testing is performed to provide confidence that changes in a part of software do not affect other parts of the software. An execution of all existing test cases is the best way to re-establish this confidence. However, regression…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Imrul Kayes , Jacob Chakareski

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

Background: Modern software uses many third-party libraries and frameworks as dependencies. Known vulnerabilities in these dependencies are a potential security risk. Software composition analysis (SCA) tools, therefore, are being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Nasif Imtiaz , Seaver Thorne , Laurie Williams

Software security has been an important research topic over the years. The community has proposed processes and tools for secure software development and security analysis. However, a significant number of vulnerabilities remains in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Steven Arzt , Linda Schreiber , Dominik Appelt

Context: During the development process of a software program, regression testing is used to ensure that the correct behavior of the software is retained after updates to the source code. This regression testing becomes costly over time as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mostafa Mahdieh , Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi , Khashayar Etemadi , Ali Nosrati , Sajad Jalali

Mainstream software applications and tools are the configurable platforms with an enormous number of parameters along with their values. Certain settings and possible interactions between these parameters may harden (or soften) the security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuvalaxmi Dass , Akbar Siami Namin

Background: Machine Learning (ML) systems rely on data to make predictions, the systems have many added components compared to traditional software systems such as the data processing pipeline, serving pipeline, and model training. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Tuan Dung Lai , Anj Simmons , Scott Barnett , Jean-Guy Schneider , Rajesh Vasa

Due to the growing number of cyber attacks against computer systems, we need to pay special attention to the security of our software systems. In order to maximize the effectiveness, excluding the human component from this process would be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Tamás Viszkok , Péter Hegedűs , Rudolf Ferenc

Regression testing activities greatly reduce the risk of faulty software release. However, the size of the test suites grows throughout the development process, resulting in time-consuming execution of the test suite and delayed feedback to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Mostafa Mahdieh , Seyed-Hassan Mirian-Hosseinabadi , Mohsen Mahdieh

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

During software development, balancing security and non security issues is challenging. We focus on security awareness and approaches taken by non-security experts using software development issue trackers when considering security. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Léon McGregor , Manuel Maarek , Hans-Wolfgang Loidl

Logical vulnerabilities in software stem from flaws in program logic rather than memory safety, which can lead to critical security failures. Although existing automated program repair techniques primarily focus on repairing memory…

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly common in security applications, such as malware and intrusion detection. However, ML models are often susceptible to evasion attacks, in which an adversary makes changes to the input (such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Liang Tong , Bo Li , Chen Hajaj , Chaowei Xiao , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Software systems evolve continuously through frequent code changes, yet such changes often introduce unintended bugs despite extensive testing and code review. Existing testing approaches are largely constrained to predefined execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yanqi Su , Michael Pradel , Chunyang Chen

Computer-based systems have solved several domain problems, including industrial, military, education, and wearable. Nevertheless, such arrangements need high-quality software to guarantee security and safety as both are mandatory for…

Software security relies on effective vulnerability detection and patching, yet determining whether a patch fully eliminates risk remains an underexplored challenge. Existing vulnerability benchmarks often treat patched functions as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mohammad Farhad , Shuvalaxmi Dass

Defects in requirements specifications can have severe consequences during the software development lifecycle. Some of them may result in poor product quality and/or time and budget overruns due to incorrect or missing quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Hugo Villamizar , Marcos Kalinowski , Alessandro Garcia , Daniel Mendez Fernández