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Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and detect deviations from the project coding guidelines. Given their importance, linters are often introduced to classrooms to educate students on how to detect and…

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Deep Learning methods are becoming prominent in automated software bug detection; however, they lack the global understanding of the given code. Consequently, their performance tends to degrade, especially when they are applied to large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Srita Padmanabhuni , Bhargavi Karuturi , Jerusha Karen Indupalli , Santhan Reddy Chilla , Vivek Yelleti

Modern software systems are increasingly including machine learning (ML) as an integral component. However, we do not yet understand the difficulties faced by software developers when learning about ML libraries and using them within their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Md Johirul Islam , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Rangeet Pan , Hridesh Rajan

Static analyzers can reason about the properties and behaviors of programs and detect various issues without executing them. Hence, they should extract the necessary information to understand the analyzed program well. Annotation has been a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Huaien Zhang , Yu Pei , Shuyun Liang , Shin Hwei Tan

Data science pipelines to train and evaluate models with machine learning may contain bugs just like any other code. Leakage between training and test data can lead to overestimating the model's accuracy during offline evaluations, possibly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Chenyang Yang , Rachel A Brower-Sinning , Grace A. Lewis , Christian Kästner

The popularity and wide adoption of JavaScript both at the client and server side makes its code analysis more important than ever before. Most of the algorithms for vulnerability analysis, coding issue detection, or type inference rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Gábor Antal , Péter Hegedűs , Zoltán Tóth , Rudolf Ferenc , Tibor Gyimóthy

Static analysis tools have evolved over time to assist in detecting bugs. However, the excessive false warnings can impede developers' productivity and confidence in the tools. Previous research efforts have explored learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Han Liu , Jian Zhang , Cen Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Kaixuan Li , Sen Chen , Shang-Wei Lin , Yixiang Chen , Xinhua Li , Yang Liu

The sources of reliable, code-level information about vulnerabilities that affect open-source software (OSS) are scarce, which hinders a broad adoption of advanced tools that provide code-level detection and assessment of vulnerable OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Therese Fehrer , Rocío Cabrera Lozoya , Antonino Sabetta , Dario Di Nucci , Damian A. Tamburri

DL frameworks are the basis of constructing all DL programs and models, and thus their bugs could lead to the unexpected behaviors of any DL program or model relying on them. Such a wide effect demonstrates the necessity and importance of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Junjie Chen , Yihua Liang , Qingchao Shen , Jiajun Jiang , Shuochuan Li

Efficient bug triaging procedures are an important precondition for successful collaborative software engineering projects. Triaging bugs can become a laborious task particularly in open source software (OSS) projects with a large base of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Marcelo Serrano Zanetti , Ingo Scholtes , Claudio Juan Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

Natural language elements in source code, e.g., the names of variables and functions, convey useful information. However, most existing bug detection tools ignore this information and therefore miss some classes of bugs. The few existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Michael Pradel , Koushik Sen

Rust relies on its unique ownership mechanism to ensure thread and memory safety. However, numerous potential security vulnerabilities persist in practical applications. New language features in Rust pose new challenges for vulnerability…

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Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

Large Language Model (LLM) libraries have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering today's AI revolution, serving as the backbone for LLM deployment, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and production serving across diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weipeng Jiang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Jiongchi Yu , Yuhan Zhi , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen

Tools have become a mainstay of LLMs, allowing them to retrieve knowledge not in their weights, to perform tasks on the web, and even to control robots. However, most ontologies and surveys of tool-use have assumed the core challenge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Jimin Sun , So Yeon Min , Yingshan Chang , Yonatan Bisk

Static analysis tools are commonly used to detect defects before the code is released. Previous research has focused on their overall effectiveness and their ability to detect defects. However, little is known about the usage patterns of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Georgios Liargkovas , Evangelia Panourgia , Diomidis Spinellis

Fault-detection, localization, and repair methods are vital to software quality; but it is difficult to evaluate their generality, applicability, and current effectiveness. Large, diverse, realistic datasets of durably-reproducible faults…

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not caught before the code is released, which could be caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Karl Tamberg , Hayretdin Bahsi

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve your code and increase its strength to withstand security…

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