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The remarkable capability of large language models (LLMs) in generating high-quality code has drawn increasing attention in the software testing community. However, existing code LLMs often demonstrate unsatisfactory capabilities in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yifeng He , Jiabo Huang , Yuyang Rong , Yiwen Guo , Ethan Wang , Hao Chen

Flaky tests are software tests that exhibit a seemingly random outcome (pass or fail) when run against the same, identical code. Previous work has examined fixes to flaky tests and has proposed automated solutions to locate as well as fix…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Moritz Eck , Fabio Palomba , Marco Castelluccio , Alberto Bacchelli

Unit level test has been widely recognized as an important approach to improve the software quality, as it can expose bugs earlier during the development phase. However, manual unit level test development is often tedious and insufficient.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ning Luo , Linlin Zhang

Testing has become an indispensable activity of software development, yet writing good and relevant tests remains a quite challenging task. One well-known problem is that it often is impossible or unrealistic to test for every outcome, as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Dimitri Racordon , Didier Buchs

py-irt is a Python library for fitting Bayesian Item Response Theory (IRT) models. py-irt estimates latent traits of subjects and items, making it appropriate for use in IRT tasks as well as ideal-point models. py-irt is built on top of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 John P. Lalor , Pedro Rodriguez

$\textit{Pymc-learn}$ is a Python package providing a variety of state-of-the-art probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised machine learning. It is inspired by $\textit{scikit-learn}$ and focuses on bringing probabilistic machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-05 Daniel Emaasit

This paper presents the first concolic testing framework explicitly designed for quantum programs. The framework introduces quantum constraint generation methods for quantum control statements that quantify quantum states and offers a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shangzhou Xia , Jianjun Zhao , Fuyuan Zhang , Xiaoyu Guo

Performance analysis is a critical step in the oft-repeated, iterative process of performance tuning of parallel programs. Per-process, per-thread traces (detailed logs of events with timestamps) enable in-depth analysis of parallel program…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Abhinav Bhatele , Rakrish Dhakal , Alexander Movsesyan , Aditya K. Ranjan , Onur Cankur

pPython seeks to provide a parallel capability that provides good speed-up without sacrificing the ease of programming in Python by implementing partitioned global array semantics (PGAS) on top of a simple file-based messaging library…

Python has become the most popular programming language as it is friendly to work with for beginners. However, a recent study has found that most security issues in Python have not been indexed by CVE and may only be fixed by 'silent'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shiyu Sun , Shu Wang , Xinda Wang , Yunlong Xing , Elisa Zhang , Kun Sun

This paper presents the PyEB tool, a Python implementation of the Event-B refinement calculus. The PyEB tool takes a Python program and generates several proof obligations that are then passed into the Z3 solver for verification purposes.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Néstor Cataño

Python's dynamic type system, while offering significant flexibility and expressiveness, poses substantial challenges for static analysis and automated tooling, particularly in unannotated or partially annotated codebases. Existing type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ali Aman , Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Shaowei Wang

Python type inference is challenging in practice. Due to its dynamic properties and extensive dependencies on third-party libraries without type annotations, the performance of traditional static analysis techniques is limited. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Siwei Cui , Gang Zhao , Zeyu Dai , Luochao Wang , Ruihong Huang , Jeff Huang

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative logic programming formalism, which is employed nowadays in both academic and industrial real-world applications. Although some tools for supporting the development of ASP programs have been…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Onofrio Febbraro , Nicola Leone , Kristian Reale , Francesco Ricca

Python, one of the most prevalent programming languages today, is widely utilized in various domains, including web development, data science, machine learning, and DevOps. Recent scholarly efforts have proposed a methodology to assess…

TextAttack is an open-source Python toolkit for adversarial attacks, adversarial training, and data augmentation in NLP. TextAttack unites 15+ papers from the NLP adversarial attack literature into a single framework, with many components…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John X. Morris , Jin Yong Yoo , Yanjun Qi

We introduce PyQBench, an innovative open-source framework for benchmarking gate-based quantum computers. PyQBench can benchmark NISQ devices by verifying their capability of discriminating between two von Neumann measurements. PyQBench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Konrad Jałowiecki , Paulina Lewandowska , Łukasz Pawela

Modern software projects include automated tests written to check the programs' functionality. The set of functions invoked by a test is called the trace of the test, and the action of obtaining a trace is called tracing. There are many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Eyal Hadad , Roni Stern

Modern time series analysis demands frameworks that are flexible, efficient, and extensible. However, many existing Python libraries exhibit limitations in modularity and in their native support for irregular, multi-source, or sparse data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhijin Wang , Senzhen Wu , Yue Hu , Xiufeng Liu

A data analysis pipeline is a structured sequence of steps that transforms raw data into meaningful insights by integrating various analysis algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel statistical test to assess the significance of data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-15 Tomohiro Shiraishi , Tatsuya Matsukawa , Shuichi Nishino , Ichiro Takeuchi