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The advancement of LLM agents with tool-use capabilities requires diverse and complex training corpora. Existing data generation methods, which predominantly follow a paradigm of random sampling and shallow generation, often yield simple…

This paper presents a learning-based approach to detecting failures in reactive systems. The technique is based on inferring models of multiple implementations of a common specification which are pair-wise cross-checked for equivalence. Any…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Martin Tappler , Bernhard K. Aichernig , Roderick Bloem

Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cost of software maintenance. Automated test case generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Claus Klammer , Dietmar Pfahl , Stefan Fischer , Rudolf Ramler

The fragmentation problem has extended from Android to different platforms, such as iOS, mobile web, and even mini-programs within some applications (app). In such a situation, recording and replaying test scripts is a popular automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Yexiao Yun , Yang Feng

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into autonomous agents has enabled complex tool use, yet in high-stakes domains, these systems must strictly adhere to regulatory standards beyond simple functional correctness. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Da Song , Yuheng Huang , Boqi Chen , Tianshuo Cong , Randy Goebel , Lei Ma , Foutse Khomh

Generating diverse, readable statistical charts from tabular data remains challenging for LLMs, as many failures become apparent after rendering and are not detectable from data or code alone. Existing chart datasets also rarely provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Pavlin G. Poličar , Andraž Pevcin , Blaž Zupan

We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to a mobile system: the Android client of QuizUp, the largest mobile trivia game in the world. The study shows that traditional MBT approaches based on extended…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Vignir Gudmundsson , Mikael Lindvall , Luca Aceto , Johann Bergthorsson , Dharmalingam Ganesan

Though many machine learning (ML)-based unit testing generation approaches have been proposed and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have several limitations in effectiveness and practical usage. More precisely, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Chao Ni , Xiaoya Wang , Liushan Chen , Dehai Zhao , Zhengong Cai , Shaohua Wang , Xiaohu Yang

In response to the limitations of manual ad creation, significant research has been conducted in the field of automatic ad text generation (ATG). However, the lack of comprehensive benchmarks and well-defined problem sets has made comparing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Masato Mita , Soichiro Murakami , Akihiko Kato , Peinan Zhang

In software development, developers extensively utilize third-party libraries to avoid implementing existing functionalities. When a new third-party library vulnerability is disclosed, project maintainers need to determine whether their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zirui Chen , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Yi Gao , Tongtong Xu , David Lo , Xiaohu Yang

As deep learning models are widely used in software systems, test generation plays a crucial role in assessing the quality of such models before deployment. To date, the most advanced test generators rely on generative AI to synthesize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xingcheng Chen , Oliver Weissl , Andrea Stocco

Software vulnerabilities continue to undermine the reliability and security of modern systems, particularly as software complexity outpaces the capabilities of traditional detection methods. This study introduces a genetic algorithm-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanusha Mehendran , Maolin Tang , Yi Lu

Graph-based computations are crucial in a wide range of applications, where graphs can scale to trillions of edges. To enable efficient training on such large graphs, mini-batch subgraph sampling is commonly used, which allows training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yue Jin , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong

We introduce Bug-Injector, a system that automatically creates benchmarks for customized evaluation of static analysis tools. We share a benchmark generated using Bug-Injector and illustrate its efficacy by using it to evaluate the recall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Vineeth Kashyap , Jason Ruchti , Lucja Kot , Emma Turetsky , Rebecca Swords , Shih An Pan , Julien Henry , David Melski , Eric Schulte

Question generation (QGen) models are often evaluated with standardized NLG metrics that are based on n-gram overlap. In this paper, we measure whether these metric improvements translate to gains in a practical setting, focusing on the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Philippe Laban , Chien-Sheng Wu , Lidiya Murakhovs'ka , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Modern software is increasingly built by composing APIs, elevating the API contract to a critical role. Inadequate contracts, however, lead to mismatched expectations and failures, creating a pressing need for robust conformance testing.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 S M Sadrul Islam Asif , James Chen , Earl T. Barr , Mark Marron

We present a framework for merging unit tests for autonomous systems. Typically, it is intractable to test an autonomous system for every scenario in its operating environment. The question of whether it is possible to design a single test…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-07 Josefine Graebener , Apurva Badithela , Richard M. Murray

Current learning-based robot grasping approaches exploit human-labeled datasets for training the models. However, there are two problems with such a methodology: (a) since each object can be grasped in multiple ways, manually labeling grasp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Lerrel Pinto , Abhinav Gupta

Smart contracts are autonomous and immutable pieces of code that are deployed on blockchain networks and run by miners. They were first introduced by Ethereum in 2014 and have since been used for various applications such as security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mahdi Fooladgar , Fathiyeh Faghih

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
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