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Inconsistent modifications to code clones can lead to software defects. Many approaches exist to support consistent modifications based on clone detection and/or change pattern extraction. However, no tool currently supports synchronization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Motoki Abe , Shinpei Hayashi

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code given a natural language query. While related to other information retrieval tasks, it requires bridging the gap between the language used in code (often abbreviated and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hamel Husain , Ho-Hsiang Wu , Tiferet Gazit , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt

Programs are a kind of communication to both computers and people, hence as students are trained to write programs they need to learn to write well-designed, readable code rather than code that simply functions correctly. The difficulty in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-08 J. Walker Orr

Automated unit test generation is a well-known methodology aiming to reduce the developers' effort of writing tests manually. Prior research focused mainly on statically typed programming languages like Java. In practice, however,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

All widely used and useful programming languages have a common problem. They restrict entry on the basis of knowledge of the English language. The lack of knowledge of English poses a major hurdle to many newcomers who do not have the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Saad Ahmed Bazaz , Mirza Omer Beg

A source code difference (diff) indicates changes made by comparing new and old source codes, and it can be utilized in code reviews to help developers understand the changes made to the code. Although many diff generation methods have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Tsukasa Yagi , Shinpei Hayashi

While programming is one of the most broadly applicable skills in modern society, modern machine learning models still cannot code solutions to basic problems. Despite its importance, there has been surprisingly little work on evaluating…

Code reasoning tasks are increasingly crucial to evaluating large language models (LLMs). Yet most existing benchmarks rely on simplistic, LLM-generated snippets or human-written solutions to code challenges and often restrict inputs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Changshu Liu

In this paper, we introduce OWLAPY, a comprehensive Python framework for OWL ontology engineering. OWLAPY streamlines the creation, modification, and serialization of OWL 2 ontologies. It uniquely integrates native Python-based reasoners…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Alkid Baci , Luke Friedrichs , Caglar Demir , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored for their potential in software engineering, particularly in static analysis tasks. In this study, we investigate the potential of current LLMs to enhance call-graph analysis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh , Rose Sunil , Samkutty Sabu , Amir M. Mir , Sofia Reis , Eric Bodden

Automated documentation of programming source code and automated code generation from natural language are challenging tasks of both practical and scientific interest. Progress in these areas has been limited by the low availability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone , Rico Sennrich

Call graphs play an important role in different contexts, such as profiling and vulnerability propagation analysis. Generating call graphs in an efficient manner can be a challenging task when it comes to high-level languages that are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vitalis Salis , Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Panos Louridas , Diomidis Spinellis , Dimitris Mitropoulos

Python is a popular dynamic programming language, evidenced by its ranking as the second most commonly used language on GitHub. However, its dynamic type system can lead to potential type errors, leading researchers to explore automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yun Peng , Chaozheng Wang , Wenxuan Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Understanding students' programming misconceptions is critical. Doing so depends on identifying the reasons why students make errors when learning a new programming language. Knowing the misconceptions can help students to improve their…

Code completion aims to help improve developers' productivity by suggesting the next code tokens from a given context. Various approaches have been proposed to incorporate abstract syntax tree (AST) information for model training, ensuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Wannita Takerngsaksiri , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yuan-Fang Li

Most software maintenance and evolution tasks require developers to understand the source code of their software systems. Software developers usually inspect class comments to gain knowledge about program behavior, regardless of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pooja Rani , Sebastiano Panichella , Manuel Leuenberger , Andrea Di Sorbo , Oscar Nierstrasz

We consider the problem of parsing natural language descriptions into source code written in a general-purpose programming language like Python. Existing data-driven methods treat this problem as a language generation task without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

The rapid evolution of software libraries presents a significant challenge for code generation models, which must adapt to frequent version updates while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. Existing code completion benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Nizar Islah , Justine Gehring , Diganta Misra , Eilif Muller , Irina Rish , Terry Yue Zhuo , Massimo Caccia

As a type of figurative language, an East Asian idiom condenses rich cultural background into only a few characters. Translating such idioms is challenging for human translators, who often resort to choosing a context-aware translation from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kenan Tang , Peiyang Song , Yao Qin , Xifeng Yan

Context: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering practice that improves the understandability and maintainability of source code. Several studies attempted to detect refactoring activities through mining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Eman Abdullah AlOmar