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Researchers have made significant progress in automating the software development process in the past decades. Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly impacted the development process, where developers can use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yuntong Zhang , Haifeng Ruan , Zhiyu Fan , Abhik Roychoudhury

Currently, large pre-trained language models are widely applied in neural code completion systems. Though large code models significantly outperform their smaller counterparts, around 70\% of displayed code completions from Github Copilot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Zhensu Sun , Xiaoning Du , Fu Song , Shangwen Wang , Mingze Ni , Li Li , David Lo

The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation in data science offers substantial potential for enhancing tasks such as data manipulation, statistical analysis, and visualization. However, the effectiveness of these models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Nathalia Nascimento , Everton Guimaraes , Sai Sanjna Chintakunta , Santhosh Anitha Boominathan

Software sustainability is emerging as a primary concern, aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and promote a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. The sustainability or "greenness" of software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Samarth Sikand , Rohit Mehra , Vibhu Saujanya Sharma , Vikrant Kaulgud , Sanjay Podder , Adam P. Burden

Recently, the ChatGPT LLM has received great attention: it can be used as a bot for discussing source code, prompting it to suggest changes, provide descriptions or even generate code. Typical demonstrations generally focus on existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Haoye Tian , Weiqi Lu , Tsz On Li , Xunzhu Tang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Peer code review locates common coding rule violations and simple logical errors in the early phases of software development, and thus reduces overall cost. However, in GitHub, identifying an appropriate code reviewer for a pull request is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Jason A. Collins

Code generation problems differ from common natural language problems - they require matching the exact syntax of the target language, identifying happy paths and edge cases, paying attention to numerous small details in the problem spec,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tal Ridnik , Dedy Kredo , Itamar Friedman

In the rapidly evolving industry of software development, coding efficiency and accuracy play significant roles in delivering high-quality software. Various code suggestion and completion tools, such as CodeBERT from Microsoft and GPT-3.5…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Bingbing Zhang , Ziyu Lin , Yingxin Su

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities in numerous fields. This survey focuses on how LLMs empower users, regardless of their technical background, to use human languages to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Nam Huynh , Beiyu Lin

The recently released GPT-4 Code Interpreter has demonstrated remarkable proficiency in solving challenging math problems, primarily attributed to its ability to seamlessly reason with natural language, generate code, execute code, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ke Wang , Houxing Ren , Aojun Zhou , Zimu Lu , Sichun Luo , Weikang Shi , Renrui Zhang , Linqi Song , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

With the increasing utilization of large language models such as ChatGPT during software development, it has become crucial to verify the quality of code content it generates. Recent studies proposed utilizing ChatGPT as both a developer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiao Yu , Lei Liu , Xing Hu , Jacky Wai Keung , Jin Liu , Xin Xia

The use of generative AI-based coding assistants like ChatGPT and Github Copilot is a reality in contemporary software development. Many of these tools are provided as remote APIs. Using third-party APIs raises data privacy and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Negar Alizadeh , Boris Belchev , Nishant Saurabh , Patricia Kelbert , Fernando Castor

GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing complete walkthroughs with links to the relevant code. As this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tao Xiao , Hideaki Hata , Christoph Treude , Kenichi Matsumoto

This study evaluates the performance of ChatGPT variants, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, both with and without prompt engineering, against solely student work and a mixed category containing both student and GPT-4 contributions in university-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Will Yeadon , Alex Peach , Craig P. Testrow

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming integral to modern software development workflows, assisting developers with code generation, API explanation, and iterative problem-solving through natural language conversations. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Suzhen Zhong , Ying Zou , Bram Adams

The GitHub issue resolution task aims to resolve issues reported in repositories automatically. With advances in large language models (LLMs), this task has gained increasing attention, and several benchmarks are proposed to evaluate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Lianghong Guo , Wei Tao , Runhan Jiang , Yanlin Wang , Jiachi Chen , Xilin Liu , Yuchi Ma , Mingzhi Mao , Hongyu Zhang , Zibin Zheng

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven code generation tools are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding tasks. However, the security of AI-generated code using Large Language Models (LLMs) remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammed Kharma , Soohyeon Choi , Mohammed AlKhanafseh , David Mohaisen

Automated code generation can be a powerful technique for software development, significantly reducing developers' efforts and time required to create new code by generating it automatically based on requirements. Recently, OpenAI's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chao Liu , Xuanlin Bao , Hongyu Zhang , Neng Zhang , Haibo Hu , Xiaohong Zhang , Meng Yan

Transformer-based language models for automatic code completion have shown great promise so far, yet the evaluation of these models rarely uses real data. This study provides both quantitative and qualitative assessments of three public…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Maliheh Izadi , Jonathan Katzy , Tim van Dam , Marc Otten , Razvan Mihai Popescu , Arie van Deursen