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Bugs in Scratch programs can spoil the fun and inhibit learning success. Many common bugs are the result of recurring patterns of bad code. In this paper we present a collection of common code patterns that typically hint at bugs in Scratch…

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The interest in quantum computing is growing, and with it, the importance of software platforms to develop quantum programs. Ensuring the correctness of such platforms is important, and it requires a thorough understanding of the bugs they…

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Context: Many studies consider the relation between individual aspects of the software engineering process and bug-introduction, e.g., software testing and code review. These studies typically only identify correlations between their set of…

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As quantum computers continue to improve in quality and scale, there is a growing need for accessible software frameworks for programming them. However, the unique behavior of quantum systems means specialized approaches, beyond traditional…

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Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Software bugs significantly contribute to software cost and increase the risk of system malfunctioning. In recent years, many automated program-repair approaches have been proposed to automatically fix undesired program behavior. Despite of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Dirk Beyer , Lars Grunske , Thomas Lemberger , Minxing Tang

Fixing bugs is an important phase in software development and maintenance. In practice, the process of bug fixing may conflict with the release schedule. Such confliction leads to a trade-off between software quality and release schedule,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , Yan Hu , He Jiang

Software companies spend over 45 percent of cost in dealing with software bugs. An inevitable step of fixing bugs is bug triage, which aims to correctly assign a developer to a new bug. To decrease the time cost in manual work, text…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Yan Hu , Zhilei Ren , Weiqin Zou , Zhongxuan Luo , Xindong Wu

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Bug reports are common artefacts in software development. They serve as the main channel for users to communicate to developers information about the issues that they encounter when using released versions of software programs. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arthur D. Sawadogo , Quentin Guimard , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Naouel Moha

In a software project, esp. in open-source, a contribution is a valuable piece of work made to the project: writing code, reporting bugs, translating, improving documentation, creating graphics, etc. We are now at the beginning of an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Martin Monperrus

Context: Logging is an important part of modern software projects; logs are used in several tasks such as debugging and testing. Due to the complex nature of logging, it remains a difficult task with several pitfalls that could have serious…

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TypeScript has rapidly become a popular language for modern web development, yet its effect on software faults remains poorly understood. This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of bugs in real-world TypeScript projects.…

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When a bug is detected by testing a quantum program on a quantum computer, we want to determine its location to fix it. To locate the bug, the quantum program is divided into several segments, and each segment is tested. However, to prepare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Naoto Sato , Ryota Katsube

Debugging is considered as a rigorous but important feature of software engineering process. Since more than a decade, the software engineering research community is exploring different techniques for removal of faults from programs but it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Safeeullah Soomro , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Zainab Alansari , Mahdi H. Miraz

Developers are widely using AI code-generation models, aiming to increase productivity and efficiency. However, there are also quality concerns regarding the AI-generated code. The generated code is produced by models trained on publicly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ruofan Gao , Amjed Tahir , Peng Liang , Teo Susnjak , Foutse Khomh

Tile-based programming frameworks are increasingly adopted to write high-performance GPU kernels in domains such as deep learning and scientific computing. While these frameworks enhance productivity and hardware utilization, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Zihe Song , Nidhi Majoju , Aaryaa Moharir , Tingxi Li , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

Bugs are essential in software engineering; many research studies in the past decades have been proposed to detect, localize, and repair bugs in software systems. Effectiveness evaluation of such techniques requires complex bugs, i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada , Yang Chen , Ryan Rong , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Bugs are inescapable during software development due to frequent code changes, tight deadlines, etc.; therefore, it is important to have tools to find these errors. One way of performing bug identification is to analyze the characteristics…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Gyimesi , Gábor Gyimesi , Zoltán Tóth , Tibor Gyimóthy

With the advance in quantum computing in recent years, quantum software becomes vital for exploring the full potential of quantum computing systems. Quantum programming is different from classical programming, for example, the state of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mohamed Raed El aoun , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh , Lionel Tidjon