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Software fault localization remains challenging due to limited feature diversity and low precision in traditional methods. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates multi-objective optimization with deep learning models to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiaolei Hu , Dongcheng Li , W. Eric Wong , Ya Zou

Software debugging is a critical and time-consuming aspect of software development, with fault localization being a fundamental step that significantly impacts debugging efficiency. Mutation-Based Fault Localization (MBFL) has gained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hengyuan Liu , Xia Song , Yong Liu , Zheng Li

Fault based testing is a technique in which test cases are chosen to reveal certain classes of faults. At present, testing professionals use their personal experience to select testing methods for fault classes considered the most likely to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Shimul Kumar Nath , Robert Merkel , Man Fai Lau , Tanay Kanti Paul

Bug localization is a tedious activity in the bug fixing process in which a software developer tries to locate bugs in the source code described in a bug report. Since this process is time-consuming and requires additional knowledge about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Benjamin Ledel , Steffen Herbold

The software development process is characterized by an iterative cycle of continuous functionality implementation and debugging, essential for the enhancement of software quality and adaptability to changing requirements. This process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yihao Qin , Shangwen Wang , Yan Lei , Zhuo Zhang , Bo Lin , Xin Peng , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Software engineering agents are increasingly deployed in evaluable engineering environments, yet post-failure recovery remains costly, manual, and ad hoc. Existing systems expose traces or generate follow-up feedback, but they do not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenyu Zhao , Shenglin Zhang , Yihang Lin , Wenwei Gu , Zhimin Chen , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan , Minghua Ma

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to bugs, just like other types of software systems. A significant uptick in using DNN, and its applications in wide-ranging areas, including safety-critical systems, warrant extensive research on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ali Ghanbari , Deepak-George Thomas , Muhammad Arbab Arshad , Hridesh Rajan

Bug localization in object oriented program ha s always been an important issue in softeware engineering. In this paper, I propose a source level bug localization technique for object oriented embedded programs. My proposed technique,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Partha Pratim Ray

Software updates, including bug repair and feature additions, are frequent in modern applications but they often leave test suites outdated, resulting in undetected bugs and increased chances of system failures. A recent study by Meta…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shanto Rahman , Sachit Kuhar , Berk Cirisci , Pranav Garg , Shiqi Wang , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras , Baishakhi Ray

During testing, developers can place oracles externally or internally with respect to a method. Given a faulty execution state, i.e., one that differs from the expected one, an oracle might be unable to expose the fault if it is placed at a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Gunel Jahangirova , David Clark , Mark Harman , Paolo Tonella

Bug localization refers to the identification of source code files which is in a programming language and also responsible for the unexpected behavior of software using the bug report, which is a natural language. As bug localization is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Partha Chakraborty , Venkatraman Arumugam , Meiyappan Nagappan

One of the most significant challenges in the field of software code auditing is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are discovered, either internally in proprietary code or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Juan Rodriguez Cardenas , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Due to the impressive code comprehension ability of Large Language Models (LLMs), a few studies have proposed to leverage LLMs to locate bugs, i.e., LLM-based FL, and demonstrated promising performance. However, first, these methods are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chuyang Xu , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Gehao Zhang , Ming Liang , David Lo

Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Jiongchi Yu , Jiaolong Kong , Yi Li

App stores allow users to give valuable feedback on apps, and developers to find this feedback and use it for the software evolution. However, finding user feedback that matches existing bug reports in issue trackers is challenging as users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Marlo Häring , Christoph Stanik , Walid Maalej

The tremendous success of Deep Learning (DL) has significantly boosted the number of open-sourced DL frameworks hosted on GitHub. Among others, performance and accuracy bugs are critical factors that affect the reputation of these DL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Guoming Long , Tao Chen

Bugs are notoriously challenging: they slow down software users and result in time-consuming investigations for developers. These challenges are exacerbated when bugs must be reported in natural language by users. Indeed, we lack reliable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Laura Plein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sogol Masoumzadeh , Yufei Li , Shane McIntosh , Dániel Varró , Lili Wei

Software development life cycle is profoundly influenced by bugs: their introduction, identification, and eventual resolution account for a significant portion of software cost. This has motivated software engineering researchers and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Matthew Jin , Syed Shahriar , Michele Tufano , Xin Shi , Shuai Lu , Neel Sundaresan , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

Fixing bugs in a timely manner lowers various potential costs in software maintenance. However, manual bug fixing scheduling can be time-consuming, cumbersome, and error-prone. In this paper, we propose the Schedule and Dependency-aware Bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hadi Jahanshahi , Mucahit Cevik