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Software quality is one of the essential aspects of a software. With increasing demand, software designs are becoming more complex, increasing the probability of software defects. Testers improve the quality of software by fixing defects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Mitt Shah , Nandit Pujara

In an era of widespread influence of Natural Language Processing (NLP), there have been multiple research efforts to supplant traditional manual coding techniques with automated systems capable of generating solutions autonomously. With…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Namrata Das , Rakshya Panta , Neelam Karki , Ruchi Manandhar , Dinesh Baniya Kshatri

Pretrained transformer-based models have shown high performance in natural language generation task. However, a new wave of interest has surged: automatic programming language generation. This task consists of translating natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jessica López Espejel , Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan , Walid Dahhane , El Hassane Ettifouri

As large language models become increasingly capable of generating code, evaluating their performance remains a complex and evolving challenge. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on functional correctness, overlooking the diversity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Forough Mehralian , Ryan Shar , James R. Rae , Alireza Hashemi

Many problems related to the quality of requirements arise during elicitation and specification activities since they are written in natural language. The flexibility and inherent nature of language make requirements prone to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-14 María Guadalupe Gramajo , Luciana Ballejos , Mariel Ale

Estimating software testability can crucially assist software managers to optimize test budgets and software quality. In this paper, we propose a new approach that radically differs from the traditional approach of pursuing testability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Luca Guglielmo , Leonardo Mariani , Giovanni Denaro

Mutation testing is an established fault-based testing technique. It operates by seeding faults into the programs under test and asking developers to write tests that reveal these faults. These tests have the potential to reveal a large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ahmed Khanfir , Renzo Degiovanni , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Mutation testing is a powerful technique for assessing and improving test suite quality that artificially introduces bugs and checks whether the test suites catch them. However, it is also computationally expensive and thus does not scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Kush Jain , Uri Alon , Alex Groce , Claire Le Goues

The high cost of the test can be dramatically reduced, provided that the coverability as an inherent feature of the code under test is predictable. This article offers a machine learning model to predict the extent to which the test could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa

Our work explores the utilization of deep learning, specifically leveraging the CodeBERT model, to enhance code security testing for Python applications by detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional security testing methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guan-Yan Yang , Yi-Heng Ko , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh , Haw-Shiang Chang , Hsueh-Yi Chen

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

The presence of software vulnerabilities is an ever-growing issue in software development. In most cases, it is desirable to detect vulnerabilities as early as possible, preferably in a just-in-time manner, when the vulnerable piece is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Tamás Aladics , Péter Hegedűs , Rudolf Ferenc

Coding practices are increasingly used by software companies. Their use promotes consistency, readability, and maintainability, which contribute to software quality. Coding practices were initially enforced by general-purpose linters, but…

In current research, there are contrasting results about the applicability of software source code metrics as features for defect prediction models. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the adoption of software metrics in models for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Dominik Arne Rebro , Bruno Rossi , Stanislav Chren

Detecting software vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Deep neural networks have shown promising results on vulnerability detection, but they lack the capability to capture global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sameer Shaik , Zhen Huang , Daniela Stan Raicu , Jacob Furst

This paper discusses an approach with machine-learning probability models to evaluate the difference between good and bad data quality in a dataset. A decision tree algorithm is used to predict data quality based on no domain knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Allen ONeill

Java Code Generation consists in generating automatically Java code from a Natural Language Text. This NLP task helps in increasing programmers' productivity by providing them with immediate solutions to the simplest and most repetitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jessica López Espejel , Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan , El Mehdi Chouham , Walid Dahhane , El Hassane Ettifouri

In recent years we have witnessed an increase in cyber threats and malicious software attacks on different platforms with important consequences to persons and businesses. It has become critical to find automated machine learning techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Abir Rahali , Moulay A. Akhloufi

Evaluation metrics are crucial in the field of code synthesis. Commonly used code evaluation metrics canbe classified into three types: match-based, semantic-based, and execution-based. Among them, the execution-basedPass@k metric…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Zhang

In the rapidly evolving industry of software development, coding efficiency and accuracy play significant roles in delivering high-quality software. Various code suggestion and completion tools, such as CodeBERT from Microsoft and GPT-3.5…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Bingbing Zhang , Ziyu Lin , Yingxin Su