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Logging is a practice widely adopted in several phases of the software lifecycle. For example, during software development log statements allow engineers to verify and debug the system by exposing fine-grained information of the running…

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System logs perform a critical function in software-intensive systems as logs record the state of the system and significant events in the system at important points in time. Unfortunately, log entries are typically created in an ad-hoc,…

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Log statements capture critical information for software maintenance activities such as testing, debugging, and failure analysis. Because of this importance, developers must carefully design log statements, which requires significant…

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Logs are widely used to record runtime information of software systems, such as the timestamp and the importance of an event, the unique ID of the source of the log, and a part of the state of a task's execution. The rich information of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

Logging is indispensable for maintaining the reliability and diagnosability of modern software, yet developers still struggle to decide where and how to log effectively. Existing automated logging techniques focus on isolated sub-tasks -…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shengcheng Duan , Yihua Xu , Sheng Zhang , Shen Wang , Yue Duan

Logs are semi-structured text generated by logging statements in software source code. In recent decades, software logs have become imperative in the reliability assurance mechanism of many software systems because they are often the only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Shilin He , Pinjia He , Zhuangbin Chen , Tianyi Yang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Software developers embed logging statements inside the source code as an imperative duty in modern software development as log files are necessary for tracking down runtime system issues and troubleshooting system management tasks. Prior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sina Gholamian

Modern configurable systems offer customization via intricate configuration spaces, yet such flexibility introduces pervasive configuration-related issues such as misconfigurations and latent softwarebugs. Existing diagnosability supports…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shiwen Shan , Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Zhining Wang , Dan Li , Zibin Zheng

Logging assists in monitoring events that transpire during the execution of software. Previous research has highlighted the challenges confronted by developers when it comes to logging, including dilemmas such as where to log, what data to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Antonio Mastropaolo , Valentina Ferrari , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Logging statements are essential for software debugging and maintenance. However, existing approaches to automatic logging generation rely on static analysis and produce statements in a single pass without considering runtime behavior. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xin Wang , Yang Feng , Jiaoxiao Qian , Yang Zhang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Logging practices have been extensively investigated to assist developers in writing appropriate logging statements for documenting software behaviors. Although numerous automatic logging approaches have been proposed, their performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yichen Li , Yintong Huo , Renyi Zhong , Zhihan Jiang , Jinyang Liu , Junjie Huang , Jiazhen Gu , Pinjia He , Michael R. Lyu

Software logging is critical for system observability, yet developers face a dual crisis of costly overlogging and risky underlogging. Existing automated logging tools often overlook the fundamental whether-to-log decision and struggle with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Renyi Zhong , Yintong Huo , Wenwei Gu , Yichen Li , Michael R. Lyu

Software developers embed logging statements inside the source code as an imperative duty in modern software development as log files are necessary for tracking down runtime system issues and troubleshooting system management tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sina Gholamian , Paul A. S. Ward

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Jinyang Liu , Pinjia He , Qi Xie , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu

Log statements have become an integral part of modern software systems. Prior research efforts have focused on supporting the decisions of placing log statements, such as where/what to log. With the increasing adoption of Large Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Zhang , Dongjun Yu , Lei Zhang , Guoping Rong , Yongda Yu , Haifeng Shen , He Zhang , Dong Shao , Hongyu Kuang

Developers write logging statements to generate logs that provide run-time information for various tasks. The readability of log messages in the logging statements (i.e., the descriptive text) is rather crucial to the value of the generated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhenhao Li , An Ran Chen , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Tse-Hsun Chen , Weiyi Shang

Context: Logs are often the primary source of information for system developers and operations engineers to understand and diagnose the behavior of a software system in production. In many cases, logs are the only evidence available for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Eduardo Mendes , Fabio Petrillo

Code generation is a latency-sensitive task that demands high timeliness. However, with the growing interest and inherent difficulty in repository-level code generation, most existing code generation studies focus on improving the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qianhui Zhao , Li Zhang , Fang Liu , Xiaoli Lian , Qiaoyuanhe Meng , Ziqian Jiao , Zetong Zhou , Jia Li , Lin Shi

The reliability of cloud platforms is of significant relevance because society increasingly relies on complex software systems running on the cloud. To improve it, cloud providers are automating various maintenance tasks, with failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Li Wu , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

In the current IT world, developers write code while system operators run the code mostly as a black box. The connection between both worlds is typically established with log messages: the developer provides hints to the (unknown) operator,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao
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