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Automated test generation is crucial for ensuring the reliability and robustness of software applications while at the same time reducing the effort needed. While significant progress has been made in test generation research, generating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Shaker Mahmud Khandaker , Fitsum Kifetew , Davide Prandi , Angelo Susi

Automatic programming, the task of generating computer programs compliant with a specification without a human developer, is usually tackled either via genetic programming methods based on mutation and recombination of programs, or via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Vadim Liventsev , Aki Härmä , Milan Petković

Bug fixing is generally a manually-intensive task. However, recent work has proposed the idea of automated program repair, which aims to repair (at least a subset of) bugs in different ways such as code mutation, etc. Following in the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Hideaki Hata , Emad Shihab , Graham Neubig

Software testing is an expensive process, which is vital in the industry. Construction of the test-data in software testing requires the major cost and to decide which method to use in order to generate the test data is important. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Arash Mehrmand , Robert Feldt

Due to the labor-intensive nature of manual test oracle construction, various automated testing techniques have been proposed to enhance the reliability of Natural Language Processing (NLP) software. In theory, these techniques mutate an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jen-tse Huang , Jianping Zhang , Wenxuan Wang , Pinjia He , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

An important goal for the machine learning (ML) community is to create approaches that can learn solutions with human-level capability. One domain where humans have held a significant advantage is visual processing. A significant approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Phillip Verbancsics , Josh Harguess

Search-based procedural content generation (PCG) is a well-known method for level generation in games. Its key advantage is that it is generic and able to satisfy functional constraints. However, due to the heavy computational costs to run…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Julian Togelius

Recurrent neural networks are good at solving prediction problems. However, finding a network that suits a problem is quite hard because their performance is strongly affected by their architecture configuration. Automatic architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andrés Camero , Jamal Toutouh , Enrique Alba

Search Based Software Testing (SBST) is a popular automated testing technique which uses a feedback mechanism to search for faults in software. Despite its popularity, it has fundamental challenges related to the design, construction and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Leonid Joffe , David J. Clark

Penetration testing is an essential means of proactive defense in the face of escalating cybersecurity incidents. Traditional manual penetration testing methods are time-consuming, resource-intensive, and prone to human errors. Current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yunfei Ge , Quanyan Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as economic agents in marketplaces, auctions, and bidding settings. Anticipating their behavior in any specific deployment is hard. Existing strategic-reasoning benchmarks evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Vartan Shadarevian , Kia Ghods , Alex Kenich , Anany Kotawala

Progress in Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms goes hand-in-hand with the development of challenging environments that test the limits of current methods. While existing RL environments are either sufficiently complex or based on fast…

This paper presents a new algorithm, Evolutionary eXploration of Augmenting Memory Models (EXAMM), which is capable of evolving recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a wide variety of memory structures, such as Delta-RNN, GRU, LSTM, MGU…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Alexander Ororbia , Ahmed Ahmed Elsaid , Travis Desell

Blockchain and smart contract technology are novel approaches to data and code management that facilitate trusted computing by allowing for development in a distributed and decentralized manner. Testing smart contracts comes with its own…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Stefan Driessen , Dario Di Nucci , Geert Monsieur , Damian A. Tamburri , Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

Testing provides means pertaining to assuring software performance. The total aim of software industry is actually to make a certain start associated with high quality software for the end user. However, associated with software testing has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Ahmed Mateen , Marriam Nazir , Salman Afsar Awan

The problem of automatically generating a computer program from some specification has been studied since the early days of AI. Recently, two competing approaches for automatic program learning have received significant attention: (1)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Jacob Devlin , Jonathan Uesato , Surya Bhupatiraju , Rishabh Singh , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Pushmeet Kohli

Procedurally generated video game content has the potential to drastically reduce the content creation budget of game developers and large studios. However, adoption is hindered by limitations such as slow generation, as well as low quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Michael Beukman , Christopher W Cleghorn , Steven James

In this work, we revisit existing oracle generation studies plus ChatGPT to empirically investigate the current standing of their performance in both NLG-based and test adequacy metrics. Specifically, we train and run four state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jiho Shin , Hadi Hemmati , Moshi Wei , Song Wang

Competitive programming contests play a crucial role in cultivating computational thinking and algorithmic skills among learners. However, generating comprehensive test cases to effectively assess programming solutions remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Stefan Dascalescu , Adrian Marius Dumitran , Mihai Alexandru Vasiluta

Deep Learning (DL) compilers have been widely utilized to optimize DL models for efficient deployment across various hardware. Due to their vital role in the DL ecosystem, ensuring their reliability and security is critical. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qingchao Shen , Zan Wang , Haoyang Ma , Yongqiang Tian , Lili Huang , Zibo Xiao , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung