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Test cases are essential for software development and maintenance. In practice, developers derive multiple test cases from an implicit pattern based on their understanding of requirements and inference of diverse test scenarios, each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Binhang Qi , Yun Lin , Xinyi Weng , Chenyan Liu , Hailong Sun , Gordon Fraser , Jin Song Dong

Software testing is a critical, yet resource-intensive phase of the software development lifecycle. Over the years, various automated tools have been developed to aid in this process. Search-based approaches typically achieve high coverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Chang , Yixiong Fang , Silin Chen , Yuling Shi , Beijun Shen , Xiaodong Gu

Testing is an integral part of the software development process. Yet, writing tests is time-consuming and therefore often neglected. Classical test generation tools such as EvoSuite generate behavioral test suites by optimizing for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Nikitha Rao , Kush Jain , Uri Alon , Claire Le Goues , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

[Context:] Model-based testing is an instrument for automated generation of test cases. It requires identifying requirements in documents, understanding them syntactically and semantically, and then translating them into a test model. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Jannik Fischbach , Maximilian Junker , Andreas Vogelsang , Dietmar Freudenstein

Entity resolution, which involves identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is a crucial task in areas like Web data integration. This importance is underscored by the presence of numerous duplicated and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Huahang Li , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Lei Chen

A key part of learning to program is learning to understand programming error messages. They can be hard to interpret and identifying the cause of errors can be time-consuming. One factor in this challenge is that the messages are typically…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juho Leinonen , Arto Hellas , Sami Sarsa , Brent Reeves , Paul Denny , James Prather , Brett A. Becker

Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Miltiadis Allamanis , Henry Jackson-Flux , Marc Brockschmidt

Having a high quality software is essential in software engineering, which requires robust validation and verification processes during testing activities. Manual testing, while effective, can be time consuming and costly, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Betim Sherifi , Khaled Slhoub , Fitzroy Nembhard

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming ubiquitous both as stand-alone tools and as components of current and future software systems. To enable usage of LLMs in the high-stake or safety-critical systems of 2030, they need to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sinclair Hudson , Sophia Jit , Boyue Caroline Hu , Marsha Chechik

Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in debugging, and have matured enough to be adopted by industry. However, one critical issue with existing techniques is that, while developers want rationales for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Sungmin Kang , Bei Chen , Shin Yoo , Jian-Guang Lou

Generative large language models (LLMs) are a promising alternative to pre-trained language models for entity matching due to their high zero-shot performance and ability to generalize to unseen entities. Existing research on using LLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Aaron Steiner , Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

In this paper, we propose a testing framework for validating sanitizer implementations in compilers. Our core components are (1) a program generator specifically designed for producing programs containing undefined behavior (UB), and (2) a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shaohua Li , Zhendong Su

Testing is an essential quality activity in the software development process. Usually, a software system is tested on several levels, starting with unit testing that checks the smallest parts of the code until acceptance testing, which is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Neves , Oscar Campos , Robson Santos , Italo Santos , Cleyton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Testing plays a crucial role in the software development cycle, enabling the detection of bugs, vulnerabilities, and other undesirable behaviors. To perform software testing, testers need to write code snippets that execute the program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenhan Wang , Chenyuan Yang , Zhijie Wang , Yuheng Huang , Zhaoyang Chu , Da Song , Lingming Zhang , An Ran Chen , Lei Ma

Unit testing frameworks are nowadays considered a best practice, included in almost all modern software development processes, to achieve rapid development of correct specifications. Knowledge representation and reasoning paradigms such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Giovanni Amendola , Tobias Berei , Giuseppe Mazzotta , Francesco Ricca

Detecting and fixing bugs are two of the most important yet frustrating parts of the software development cycle. Existing bug detection tools are based mainly on static analyzers, which rely on mathematical logic and symbolic reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Dawn Drain , Chen Wu , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

For large software applications, running the whole test suite after each code change is time- and resource-intensive. Regression test selection techniques aim at reducing test execution time by selecting only the tests that are affected by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sijia Gu , Ali Mesbah