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Code review is a standard practice for ensuring the quality of software projects, and recent research has focused extensively on automated code review. While significant advancements have been made in generating code reviews, the automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yanjie Jiang , Hui Liu , Tianyi Chen , Fu Fan , Chunhao Dong , Kui Liu , Lu Zhang

Code review is an essential part to software development lifecycle since it aims at guaranteeing the quality of codes. Modern code review activities necessitate developers viewing, understanding and even running the programs to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhiyu Li , Shuai Lu , Daya Guo , Nan Duan , Shailesh Jannu , Grant Jenks , Deep Majumder , Jared Green , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments is useful for programming education. Most works try to generate feedback to correct a student program by comparing its behavior with an instructor's reference program on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Umair Z. Ahmed , Zhiyu Fan , Jooyong Yi , Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Background. Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is generally performed to enforce the best design and implementation practices or to cope with design defects. Several studies attempted to detect refactoring activities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni , Marouane Kessentini

In practice, rigorous reasoning is often a key driver of correct code, while Reinforcement Learning (RL) for code generation often neglects optimizing reasoning quality. Bringing process-level supervision into RL is appealing, but it faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lishui Fan , Yu Zhang , Mouxiang Chen , Zhongxin Liu

Project-specific code completion is a critical task that leverages context from a project to generate accurate code. State-of-the-art methods use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) and project information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Le Deng , Xiaoxue Ren , Chao Ni , Ming Liang , David Lo , Zhongxin Liu

Despite the huge success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, these models struggle to understand the context present in the repository (e.g., imports, parent classes, files with similar names, etc.),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Disha Shrivastava , Denis Kocetkov , Harm de Vries , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Torsten Scholak

Code generation is one of the tasks for which the use of Large Language Models is widely adopted and highly successful. Given this popularity, there are many benchmarks dedicated to code generation that can help select the best model.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Joanna Szych , Anne Schwerk

Increased reproducibility of machine learning research has been a driving force for dramatic improvements in learning performances. The scientific community further fosters this effort by including reproducibility ratings in reviewer forms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Eyüp Kaan Akdeniz , Selma Tekir , Malik Nizar Asad Al Hinnawi

Code completion is essential in software development, helping developers by predicting code snippets based on context. Among completion tasks, Method Body Completion (MBC) is particularly challenging as it involves generating complete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tuan-Dung Bui , Duc-Thieu Luu-Van , Thanh-Phat Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Son Nguyen , Hieu Dinh Vo

Functional programming provides strong foundations for developing reliable and secure software systems, yet its adoption remains not widespread due to the steep learning curve. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) for code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nguyet-Anh H. Lang , Eric Lang , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Code generation aims to automatically generate code snippets of specific programming language according to natural language descriptions. The continuous advancements in deep learning, particularly pre-trained models, have empowered the code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zezhou Yang , Sirong Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Zhenhao Li , Xing Hu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Code retrieval is essential in modern software development, as it boosts code reuse and accelerates debugging. However, current benchmarks primarily emphasize functional relevance while neglecting critical dimensions of software quality.…

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Proper naming of methods can make program code easier to understand, and thus enhance software maintainability. Yet, developers may use inconsistent names due to poor communication or a lack of familiarity with conventions within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kisub Kim , Xin Zhou , Dongsun Kim , Julia Lawall , Kui Liu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , Jaekwon Lee , David Lo

Code search has usually been evaluated as first-stage retrieval, even though production systems rely on broader pipelines with reranking and developer-style queries. Existing benchmarks also suffer from data contamination, label noise, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Siqiao Xue , Zihan Liao , Jin Qin , Ziyin Zhang , Yixiang Mu , Fan Zhou , Hang Yu

How to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in code generation is an open question. Many benchmarks have been proposed but are inconsistent with practical software projects, e.g., unreal program distributions, insufficient dependencies,…

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

Code generation models can benefit data scientists' productivity by automatically generating code from context and text descriptions. An important measure of the modeling progress is whether a model can generate code that can correctly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Junjie Huang , Chenglong Wang , Jipeng Zhang , Cong Yan , Haotian Cui , Jeevana Priya Inala , Colin Clement , Nan Duan , Jianfeng Gao

Code coverage is a widely used metric for quantifying the extent to which program elements, such as statements or branches, are executed during testing. Calculating code coverage is resource-intensive, requiring code building and execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Michele Tufano , Shubham Chandel , Anisha Agarwal , Neel Sundaresan , Colin Clement

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on code completion tasks in general-purpose programming languages. However, existing repository-level code completion benchmarks focus almost exclusively on software code and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qingyun Zou , Jiahao Cui , Nuo Chen , Bingsheng He , Weng-Fai Wong