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Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) is a well-established approach for automated unit test generation, yet it often suffers from premature convergence and limited diversity in the generated test suites. Recently, Large Language Models…

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While working on a software specification, designers usually need to evaluate different architectural alternatives to be sure that quality criteria are met. Even when these quality aspects could be expressed in terms of multiple software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Aurora Ramírez , José Raúl Romero , Sebastián Ventura

Unit testing represents the foundational basis of the software testing pyramid, beneath integration and end-to-end testing. Automated software testing researchers have proposed a variety of techniques to assist developers in this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Michele Tufano , Dawn Drain , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Automated test techniques usually generate unit tests with higher code coverage than manual tests. However, the readability of automated tests is crucial for code comprehension and maintenance. The readability of unit tests involves many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhichao Zhou , Yutian Tang , Yun Lin , Jingzhu He

Users interact with text, image, code, or other editors on a daily basis. However, machine learning models are rarely trained in the settings that reflect the interactivity between users and their editor. This is understandable as training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Felix Faltings , Michel Galley , Baolin Peng , Kianté Brantley , Weixin Cai , Yizhe Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Bill Dolan

One of the most important lessons from the success of deep learning is that learned representations tend to perform much better at any task compared to representations we design by hand. Yet evolution of evolvability algorithms, which aim…

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Interactive documents help readers engage with complex ideas through dynamic visualization, interactive animations, and exploratory interfaces. However, creating such documents remains costly, as it requires both domain expertise and web…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yinghao Tang , Yupeng Xie , Yingchaojie Feng , Tingfeng Lan , Jiale Lao , Yue Cheng , Wei Chen

The rising popularity of the microservice architectural style has led to a growing demand for automated testing approaches tailored to these systems. EvoMaster is a state-of-the-art tool that uses Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Clinton Cao , Annibale Panichella , Sicco Verwer

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

Developing multi-turn interactive tool-use agents is challenging because real-world user needs are often complex and ambiguous, yet agents must execute deterministic actions to satisfy them. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{CoVe}…

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Their highly adaptive nature and the combinatorial explosion of possible configurations makes testing context-oriented programs hard. We propose a methodology to automate the generation of test scenarios for developers of feature-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Pierre Martou , Kim Mens , Benoît Duhoux , Axel Legay

This study examines the relationship between student perceptions and their intention to use generative AI in higher education. Drawing on Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT), a questionnaire was developed to measure students' knowledge of…

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Design study is an established approach of conducting problem-driven visualization research. The academic visualizationcommunity has produced a large body of work for reporting on design studies, informed by a handful of theoretical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jen Rogers , Austin H. Patton , Luke Harmon , Alexander Lex , Miriah Meyer

Automatically generated unit tests-from search-based tools like EvoSuite or LLMs-vary significantly in structure and readability. Yet most evaluations rely on metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity and Cognitive Complexity, designed for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo , Yinghua Li , Xueqi Dang , Xin Zhou , Anil Koyuncu , Jacques Klein , David Lo , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Writing software tests is laborious and time-consuming. To address this, prior studies introduced various automated test-generation techniques. A well-explored research direction in this field is unit test generation, wherein artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arkadii Sapozhnikov , Mitchell Olsthoorn , Annibale Panichella , Vladimir Kovalenko , Pouria Derakhshanfar

With the development of code generation techniques, selecting the correct code solution from multiple candidate solutions has become a crucial task. This study proposes AutoTest, a novel technique that combines automated test case…

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Verilog's design cycle is inherently labor-intensive and necessitates extensive domain expertise. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising pathway toward automation, their limited training data and intrinsic sequential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei-Po Hsin , Ren-Hao Deng , Yao-Ting Hsieh , En-Ming Huang , Shih-Hao Hung

Revision is an essential part of the human writing process. It tends to be strategic, adaptive, and, more importantly, iterative in nature. Despite the success of large language models on text revision tasks, they are limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Wanyu Du , Zae Myung Kim , Vipul Raheja , Dhruv Kumar , Dongyeop Kang

It is imperative for testing to determine if the components within large-scale software systems operate functionally. Interaction testing involves designing a suite of tests, which guarantees to detect a fault if one exists among a small…

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