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Unit testing is an essential activity in software development for verifying the correctness of software components. However, manually writing unit tests is challenging and time-consuming. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers…

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This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems.It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of…

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Day-ahead unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental task for power system operators, where generator statuses and power dispatch are determined based on the forecasted nodal net demands. The uncertainty inherent in renewables and load…

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Unit testing is essential for software quality assurance, yet writing and maintaining tests remains time-consuming and error-prone. To address this challenge, researchers have proposed various techniques for automating unit test generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dianshu Liao , Xin Yin , Shidong Pan , Chao Ni , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun

We investigate the problem of multimodal search of target modality, where the task involves enhancing a query in a specific target modality by integrating information from auxiliary modalities. The goal is to retrieve relevant objects whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengzhao Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Pinpin Huang , Runkai Zhu

Entity Resolution constitutes a core data integration task that relies on Blocking in order to tame its quadratic time complexity. Schema-agnostic blocking achieves very high recall, requires no domain knowledge and applies to data of any…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Luca Gagliardelli , George Papadakis , Giovanni Simonini , Sonia Bergamaschi , Themis Palpanas

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

We present an alternative approach to solve the hardware (HW) and software (SW) partitioning problem, which uses Bounded Model Checking (BMC) based on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) in conjunction with a multi-core support using Open…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Alessandro Trindade , Hussama Ismail , Lucas Cordeiro

A variant of the well-known Set Covering Problem is studied in this paper, where subsets of a collection have to be selected, and pairwise conflicts among subsets of items exist. The selection of each subset has a cost, and the inclusion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

Branch coverage of source code is a very widely used test criterion. Moreover, branch coverage is a similar problem to line coverage, MC/DC and the coverage of assertion violations, certain runtime errors and various other types of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Nicky Williams

Test input generators are an important part of property-based testing (PBT) frameworks, and a key expectation is that they be capable of producing all acceptable elements that satisfy both the function's input type and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhe Zhou , Ashish Mishra , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Context: Software development projects increasingly adopt unit testing as a way to identify and correct program faults early in the construction process. Code that is unit tested should therefore have fewer failures associated with it.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Efstathia Chioteli , Ioannis Batas , Diomidis Spinellis

For large software applications, running the whole test suite after each code change is time- and resource-intensive. Regression test selection techniques aim at reducing test execution time by selecting only the tests that are affected by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sijia Gu , Ali Mesbah

Unit testing is crucial for software development and maintenance. Effective unit testing ensures and improves software quality, but writing unit tests is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recent studies have proposed deep learning (DL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junwei Zhang , Xing Hu , Shan Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , Shanping Li

The goal of combinatorial group testing is to efficiently identify up to $d$ defective items in a large population of $n$ items, where $d \ll n$. Defective items satisfy certain properties while the remaining items in the population do not.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Mahdi Cheraghchi , Isao Echizen

In recent years, the importance of smart contract security has been heightened by the increasing number of attacks against them. To address this issue, a multitude of static application security testing (SAST) tools have been proposed for…

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In this paper, we aim at solving a class of multiple testing problems under the Bayesian sequential decision framework. Our motivating application comes from binary labeling tasks in crowdsourcing, where the requestor needs to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-29 Xiaoou Li , Yunxiao Chen , Xi Chen , Jingchen Liu , Zhiliang Ying

Automatic test generation plays a critical role in software quality assurance. While the recent advances in Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating useful tests, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chen Yang , Junjie Chen , Bin Lin , Ziqi Wang , Jianyi Zhou

Sequential hypothesis tests are widely adopted as a principled way to perform multiple tests on data that arrives over time. In particular, researchers frequently utilize group sequential hypothesis tests (GST) to test the same hypotheses…

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