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Software development is inherently incremental. Nowadays, many software companies adopt an agile process and a shorter release cycle, where software needs to be delivered faster with quality assurances. On the other hand, the majority of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ashwin Kallingal Joshy , Wei Le

JavaScript is prevalent in web and server apps, handling sensitive data. JS testing methods lag behind other languages. Insitu concolic testing for JS is effective but slow and complex. Our method enhances tracing with V8 Sparkplug baseline…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhe Li , Fei Xie

Dynamic program slicing can significantly reduce the code developers need to inspect by narrowing it down to only a subset of relevant program statements. However, despite an extensive body of research showing its usefulness, dynamic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Bogdan Alexandru Stoica , Swarup K. Sahoo , James R. Larus , Vikram S. Adve

In current research, there are contrasting results about the applicability of software source code metrics as features for defect prediction models. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the adoption of software metrics in models for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Dominik Arne Rebro , Bruno Rossi , Stanislav Chren

Software Defect Prediction aims at predicting which software modules are the most probable to contain defects. The idea behind this approach is to save time during the development process by helping find bugs early. Defect Prediction models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Moti Cohen , Lior Rokach , Rami Puzis

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

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

In this paper, we present a novel approach to improving software quality and efficiency through a Large Language Model (LLM)-based model designed to review code and identify potential issues. Our proposed LLM-based AI agent model is trained…

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not caught before the code is released, which could be caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Karl Tamberg , Hayretdin Bahsi

Developers often spend much effort and resources to debug a program. To help the developers debug, numerous information retrieval (IR)-based and spectrum-based bug localization techniques have been devised. IR-based techniques process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thong Hoang , Richard J. Oentaryo , Tien-Duy B. Le , David Lo

Due to increasingly complex software design and rapid iterative development, code defects and security vulnerabilities are prevalent in modern software. In response, programmers rely on static analysis tools to regularly scan their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Anant Kharkar , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Matthew Jin , Xiaoyu Liu , Xin Shi , Colin Clement , Neel Sundaresan

Security vulnerabilities often arise unintentionally during development due to a lack of security expertise and code complexity. Traditional tools, such as static and dynamic analysis, detect vulnerabilities only after they are introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ranjith Krishnamurthy , Oshando Johnson , Goran Piskachev , Eric Bodden

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

Software vulnerabilities remain a persistent risk, yet static and dynamic analyses often overlook structural dependencies that shape insecure behaviors. Viewing programs as heterogeneous graphs, we capture control- and data-flow relations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jugal Gajjar , Kaustik Ranaware , Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in code generation tasks. However, existing code benchmarks remain static, consisting of fixed datasets with predefined problems. This makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wenhao Hu , Jinhao Duan , Chunchen Wei , Li Zhang , Yue Zhang , Kaidi Xu

The Just-In-Time (JIT) defect prediction model serves as a critical tool for ensuring the quality of software development and enhancing software performance. It assists development teams in promptly identifying and addressing potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Weihao Sun , Qiyun Zhao

Code smells represent sub-optimal implementation choices applied by developers when evolving software systems. The negative impact of code smells has been widely investigated in the past: besides developers' productivity and ability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba , Francesca Arcelli Fontana , Andrea De Lucia , Andy Zaidman , Filomena Ferrucci

Dynamically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS) achieves higher throughput than static HLS for codes with unpredictable memory accesses and control flow. However, excessive dataflow scheduling results in circuits that use more resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Context: Code coverage is widely used as a software quality assurance measure. However, its effect, and specifically the advisable dose, are disputed in both the research and engineering communities. Prior work reports only correlational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lukas Schulte , Gordon Fraser , Steffen Herbold

Software defects are a major threat to the reliability of computer systems. The literature shows that more than 30% of bug reports submitted in large software projects are misclassified (i.e., are feature requests, or mistakes made by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Renato Andrade , César Teixeira , Nuno Laranjeiro , Marco Vieira