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Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in non-generative software maintenance tasks, such as fault localization (FL). Success in FL depends on a models ability to reason about program semantics beyond surface-level…

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Runtime failure and performance degradation is commonplace in modern cloud systems. For cloud providers, automatically determining the root cause of incidents is paramount to ensuring high reliability and availability as prompt fault…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiqiang Xie , Yujia Zheng , Lizi Ottens , Kun Zhang , Christos Kozyrakis , Jonathan Mace

Automatically locating buggy changesets associated with bug reports is crucial in the software development process. Deep Learning (DL)-based techniques show promising results by leveraging structural information from the code and learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom , Leuson Da Silva , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

In a buggy configurable system, configuration-dependent bugs cause the failures in only certain configurations due to unexpected interactions among features. Manually localizing configuration-dependent faults in configurable systems could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Son Nguyen

Fault localization is a practical research topic that helps developers identify code locations that might cause bugs in a program. Most existing fault localization techniques are designed for imperative programs (e.g., C and Java) and rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Guolong Zheng , ThanhVu Nguyen , Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Marcelo F. Frias , Nazareno Aguirre , Hamid Bagheri

While self-correction has shown promise in improving LLM outputs in terms of style and quality (e.g. Chen et al., 2023b; Madaan et al., 2023), recent attempts to self-correct logical or reasoning errors often cause correct answers to become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gladys Tyen , Hassan Mansoor , Victor Cărbune , Peter Chen , Tony Mak

This paper presents a method to automatically fix implicit data loss warnings in large C++ projects using Large Language Models (LLMs). Our approach uses the Language Server Protocol (LSP) to gather context, Tree-sitter to extract relevant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chansong You , Hyun Deok Choi , Jingun Hong

LLM-integrated software, which embeds or interacts with large language models (LLMs) as functional components, exhibits probabilistic and context-dependent behaviors that fundamentally differ from those of traditional software. This shift…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gou Tan , Zilong He , Min Li , Pengfei Chen , Jieke Shi , Zhensu Sun , Ting Zhang , Danwen Chen , Lwin Khin Shar , Chuanfu Zhang , David Lo

Context: Static analyses are well-established to aid in understanding bugs or vulnerabilities during the development process or in large-scale studies. A low false-positive rate is essential for the adaption in practice and for precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anna-Katharina Wickert , Michael Schlichtig , Marvin Vogel , Lukas Winter , Mira Mezini , Eric Bodden

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses rely on converting narrative articles into structured, numerically grounded study records. Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), it remains unclear whether they can meet the structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zhiyin Tan , Jennifer D'Souza

Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial, especially in critical software components. Existing methods such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, formal verification, and recently Large Language Models are widely used to detect…

Debugging ML software (i.e., the detection, localization and fixing of faults) poses unique challenges compared to traditional software largely due to the probabilistic nature and heterogeneity of its development process. Various methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Haoye Tian , Bach Le , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Shane McIntosh

High-level synthesis (HLS) accelerates hardware design by enabling the automatic translation of high-level descriptions into efficient hardware implementations. However, debugging HLS code is a challenging and labor-intensive task,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jing Wang , Shang Liu , Yao Lu , Zhiyao Xie

Deploying autonomous vision systems on edge devices faces a critical challenge: resource constraints prevent real-time and predictable execution of comprehensive safety tests. Existing validation methods depend on static datasets or manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Faezeh Pasandideh , Achim Rettberg

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is critical for enhancing security, yet existing methods often struggle with the complexity and diversity of modern codebases. In this paper, we introduce EnStack, a novel ensemble stacking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Mst Shapna Akter

Eliminating vulnerabilities from low-level code is vital for securing software. Static analysis is a promising approach for discovering vulnerabilities since it can provide developers early feedback on the code they write. But, it presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Bhargava Shastry , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

The increasing rate of road accidents worldwide results not only in significant loss of life but also imposes billions financial burdens on societies. Current research in traffic crash frequency modeling and analysis has predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhiwen Fan , Pu Wang , Yang Zhao , Yibo Zhao , Boris Ivanovic , Zhangyang Wang , Marco Pavone , Hao Frank Yang

Integration testing is critical for the quality and reliability of complex software systems. However, diagnosing their failures presents significant challenges due to the massive volume, unstructured nature, and heterogeneity of logs they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Celal Ziftci , Ray Liu , Spencer Greene , Livio Dalloro