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Fault localization (FL) is a critical but time-consuming task in software debugging, aiming to identify faulty code elements. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for FL, they often struggle with complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Xinyu Shi , Zhenhao Li , An Ran Chen

Fault Localization (FL), in which a developer seeks to identify which part of the code is malfunctioning and needs to be fixed, is a recurring challenge in debugging. To reduce developer burden, many automated FL techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sungmin Kang , Gabin An , Shin Yoo

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to resolve real-world GitHub issues. However, despite their potential, the specific failure modes of these models in complex repair tasks remain poorly understood. To characterize how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yanjie Jiang , Yian Huang , Guancheng Wang , Junjie Chen , Hui Liu , Lionel Briand

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in non-generative software maintenance tasks, such as fault localization (FL). Success in FL depends on a models ability to reason about program semantics beyond surface-level…

Fault localization (FL) is a critical step in debugging, which typically relies on repeated executions to pinpoint faulty code regions. However, repeated executions can be impractical in the presence of non-deterministic failures or high…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code-related tasks, particularly in automated program repair. However, the effectiveness of such repairs is highly dependent on the performance of upstream fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-24 YingJian Xiao , RongQun Hu , WeiWei Gong , HongWei Li , AnQuan Jie

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are critical to modern software engineering, yet diagnosing and resolving their failures remains complex and labor-intensive. We present LogSage, the first end-to-end LLM-powered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Weiyuan Xu , Juntao Luo , Tao Huang , Kaixin Sui , Jie Geng , Qijun Ma , Isami Akasaka , Xiaoxue Shi , Jing Tang , Peng Cai

Modern computing systems, such as HDFS and Spark, produce vast quantities of logs that developers use for tasks like anomaly detection and error analysis. To simplify log analysis, template generation methods have been proposed to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Fei Teng , Haoyang Li , Lei Chen

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

The rise of instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a significant advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) (tailored to respond to specific prompts). Despite their popularity, applying such models to debug security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Mardani Kamali

Software systems usually provide numerous configuration options that can affect performance metrics such as execution time, memory usage, binary size, or bitrate. On the one hand, making informed decisions is challenging and requires domain…

Over the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) has become an integral part of our daily lives. This surge in DL usage has heightened the need for developing reliable DL software systems. Given that fault localization is a critical task in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Developers use logging statements to track software runtime behaviors and system status. Yet, unclear or misleading logs can hide true execution patterns and hinder software maintenance. Current research on logging statement issues is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Renyi Zhong , Yichen Li , Jinxi Kuang , Wenwei Gu , Yintong Huo , Michael R. Lyu

Router configuration errors are unfortunately common and difficult to localize using current network verifiers. We introduce a novel configuration error localizer (CEL) that precisely identifies which configuration segments contribute to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Aaron Gember-Jacobson , Ruchit Shrestha , Xiaolin Sun

Determining whether a configurable software system has a performance bug or it was misconfigured is often challenging. While there are numerous debugging techniques that can support developers in this task, there is limited empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Miguel Velez , Pooyan Jamshidi , Norbert Siegmund , Sven Apel , Christian Kästner

Entity matching is a fundamental task in data cleaning and data integration. With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs), recent studies have explored zero-shot and few-shot prompting to improve entity matching accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rohan Bopardikar , Jin Wang , Jia Zou

Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 He Yang Yuan , Xin Wang , Kundi Yao , An Ran Chen , Zishuo Ding , Zhenhao Li

While self-correction has shown promise in improving LLM outputs in terms of style and quality (e.g. Chen et al., 2023b; Madaan et al., 2023), recent attempts to self-correct logical or reasoning errors often cause correct answers to become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gladys Tyen , Hassan Mansoor , Victor Cărbune , Peter Chen , Tony Mak

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred the development of diverse AI applications from code generation and video editing to text generation; however, AI supply chains such as Hugging Face, which host pretrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Ziqi Ding , Qian Fu , Junchen Ding , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Yuekang Li

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