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Software is now so large and complex that additional architecture is needed to guide theorem provers as they try to generate test suites. For example, the SNAP test suite generator (introduced in this paper) combines the Z3 theorem prover…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Jianfeng Chen , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) extends static semantic segmentation by incrementally introducing new classes for training. To alleviate the catastrophic forgetting issue in CSS, a memory buffer that stores a small number of samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Lanyun Zhu , Tianrun Chen , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See , Jun Liu

Compilers are essential for the performance and correct execution of software and hold universal relevance across various scientific disciplines. Despite this, there is a notable lack of tools for testing and evaluating them, especially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Berke Ates , Filip Dobrosavljević , Theodoros Theodoridis , Zhendong Su

In agile software development, test code can considerably contribute to the overall source code size. Being a valuable asset both in terms of verification and documentation, the composition of a test suite needs to be well understood in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-11-06 Bart Van Rompaey , Serge Demeyer

Mixed-integer optimisation problems can be computationally challenging. Here, we introduce and analyse two efficient algorithms with a specific sequential design that are aimed at dealing with sampled problems within this class. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

We present TEGCER, an automated feedback tool for novice programmers. TEGCER uses supervised classification to match compilation errors in new code submissions with relevant pre-existing errors, submitted by other students before. The dense…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Umair Z. Ahmed , Renuka Sindhgatta , Nisheeth Srivastava , Amey Karkare

Testing of deep learning models is challenging due to the excessive number and complexity of computations involved. As a result, test data selection is performed manually and in an ad hoc way. This raises the question of how we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Wei Ma , Mike Papadakis , Anestis Tsakmalis , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Abstract Simulation platforms facilitate the development of emerging cyber-physical systems (CPS) like self-driving cars (SDC) because they are more efficient and less dangerous than field operational tests. Despite this, thoroughly testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Sajad Khatiri , Christian Birchler , Bill Bosshard , Alessio Gambi , Sebastiano Panichella

Flaw-finding static analysis tools typically generate large volumes of code flaw alerts including many false positives. To save on human effort to triage these alerts, a significant body of work attempts to use machine learning to classify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Lori Flynn , William Snavely , Zachary Kurtz

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Accurately predicting faulty software units helps practitioners target faulty units and prioritize their efforts to maintain software quality. Prior studies use machine-learning models to detect faulty software code. We revisit past studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Libo Li , Stefan Lessmann , Bart Baesens

One of the key concepts in testing is that of adequate test sets. A test selection criterion decides which test sets are adequate. In this paper, a language schema for specifying a large class of test selection criteria is developed; the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jan Pachl , Shmuel Zaks

Compilers are widely-used infrastructures in accelerating the software development, and expected to be trustworthy. In the literature, various testing technologies have been proposed to guarantee the quality of compilers. However, there…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Yixuan Tang , Zhilei Ren , Weiqiang Kong , He Jiang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have created new opportunities to enhance performance on complex reasoning tasks by leveraging test-time computation. However, existing scaling methods have key limitations: parallel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiefeng Chen , Jie Ren , Xinyun Chen , Chengrun Yang , Ruoxi Sun , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan Ö Arık

Time-series anomaly detection is a popular topic in both academia and industrial fields. Many companies need to monitor thousands of temporal signals for their applications and services and require instant feedback and alerts for potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Yuanxiang Ying , Juanyong Duan , Chunlei Wang , Yujing Wang , Congrui Huang , Bixiong Xu

In software testing, a set of test cases is constructed according to some predefined selection criteria. The software is then examined against these test cases. Three interesting observations have been made on the current artifacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-02 T. Y. Chen , S. C. Cheung , S. M. Yiu

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents show great promise in solving sequential decision-making tasks. However, validating the reliability and performance of the agent policies' behavior for deployment remains challenging. Most reinforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jørn Eirik Betten , Quentin Mazouni , Dennis Gross , Pedro Lind , Helge Spieker

In large programming classes, it takes a significant effort from teachers to evaluate exercises and provide detailed feedback. In systems programming, test cases are not sufficient to assess exercises, since concurrency and resource…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Roberto Natella

Test cases are essential for software development and maintenance. In practice, developers derive multiple test cases from an implicit pattern based on their understanding of requirements and inference of diverse test scenarios, each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Binhang Qi , Yun Lin , Xinyi Weng , Chenyan Liu , Hailong Sun , Gordon Fraser , Jin Song Dong

Testing is one of the most indispensable tasks in software engineering. The role of testing in software development has grown significantly because testing is able to reveal defects in the code in an early stage of development. Many unit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Norbert Pataki