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Log statements have become an integral part of modern software systems. Prior research efforts have focused on supporting the decisions of placing log statements, such as where/what to log. With the increasing adoption of Large Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Zhang , Dongjun Yu , Lei Zhang , Guoping Rong , Yongda Yu , Haifeng Shen , He Zhang , Dong Shao , Hongyu Kuang

Logging is a practice widely adopted in several phases of the software lifecycle. For example, during software development log statements allow engineers to verify and debug the system by exposing fine-grained information of the running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Antonio Mastropaolo , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for automating software development by translating requirements into code. However, even advanced prompting workflows like progressive prompting often leave some requirements unmet. Although methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jianru Shen , Zedong Peng , Lucy Owen

This study examined code issue detection and revision automation by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o into software development workflows. A static code analysis framework detects issues such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Seyed Moein Abtahi , Akramul Azim

In the current IT world, developers write code while system operators run the code mostly as a black box. The connection between both worlds is typically established with log messages: the developer provides hints to the (unknown) operator,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

In software engineering, log statement is an important part because programmers can't access to users' program and they can only rely on log message to find the root of bugs. The mechanism of "log level" allows developers and users to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Mingzhe Li , Jianrui Pei , Jin He , Kevin Song , Frank Che , Yongfeng Huang , Chitai Wang

Logging, the practice of inserting log statements into source code, is critical for improving software reliability. Recently, language model-based techniques have been developed to automate log statement generation based on input code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Boyin Tan , Junjielong Xu , Zhouruixing Zhu , Pinjia He

Log statements capture critical information for software maintenance activities such as testing, debugging, and failure analysis. Because of this importance, developers must carefully design log statements, which requires significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kazuki Kusama , Honglin Shu , Masanari Kondo , Yasutaka Kamei

Log anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying system failures and preempting security breaches, detects irregular patterns within large volumes of log data, and impacts domains such as service reliability, performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shenglin Zhang , Ziang Chen , Zijing Que , Yilun Liu , Yongqian Sun , Sicheng Wei , Dan Pei , Hailin Li

This paper presents RTLFixer, a novel framework enabling automatic syntax errors fixing for Verilog code with Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite LLM's promising capabilities, our analysis indicates that approximately 55% of errors in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yun-Da Tsai , Mingjie Liu , Haoxing Ren

Logs play a crucial role in modern software systems, serving as a means for developers to record essential information for future software maintenance. As the performance of these log-based maintenance tasks heavily relies on the quality of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Xiaoyuan Xie , Zhipeng Cai , Songqiang Chen , Jifeng Xuan

The reliability of cloud platforms is of significant relevance because society increasingly relies on complex software systems running on the cloud. To improve it, cloud providers are automating various maintenance tasks, with failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Sasho Nedelkoski , Li Wu , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

System logs are some of the most important information for the maintenance of software systems, which have become larger and more complex in recent years. The goal of log-based anomaly detection is to automatically detect system anomalies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomokatsu Takahashi , Takuya Minami , Yoshiaki Nakajima

With the growing ubiquity of multi-core architectures, concurrent systems have become essential but increasingly prone to complex issues such as data races and deadlocks. While modern issue-tracking systems facilitate the reporting of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuai Shao , Lu Xiao , Tingting Yu

Software logs record system activities, aiding maintainers in identifying the underlying causes for failures and enabling prompt mitigation actions. However, maintainers need to inspect a large volume of daily logs to identify the anomalous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yintong Huo , Cheryl Lee , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

Logging assists in monitoring events that transpire during the execution of software. Previous research has highlighted the challenges confronted by developers when it comes to logging, including dilemmas such as where to log, what data to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Antonio Mastropaolo , Valentina Ferrari , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Logs provide valuable insights into system runtime and assist in software development and maintenance. Log parsing, which converts semi-structured log data into structured log data, is often the first step in automated log analysis. Given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nafid Enan , Gias Uddin

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to monitor their systems and dissect anomalous behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Jinyang Liu , Pinjia He , Qi Xie , Zibin Zheng , Michael R. Lyu

Processing and reviewing nightly test execution failure logs for large industrial systems is a tedious activity. Furthermore, multiple failures might share one root/common cause during test execution sessions, and the review might therefore…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Abbas , Ali Hamayouni , Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Mehrdad Saadatmand , Per Erik Strandberg

Static analysis tools are widely used to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells. Traditionally, developers must resolve these warnings manually. Because this process is tedious, developers sometimes ignore warnings, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Pascal Joos , Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel