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Code review is a fundamental process in software development that plays a pivotal role in ensuring code quality and reducing the likelihood of errors and bugs. However, code review can be complex, subjective, and time-consuming. Quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Oussama Ben Sghaier , Houari Sahraoui

Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools in software development, widely used for requirements engineering, code generation and review tasks. Software engineers often rely on LLMs to verify if code implementation satisfy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haolin Jin , Huaming Chen

Code review is a vital but demanding aspect of software development, generating significant interest in automating review comments. Traditional evaluation methods for these comments, primarily based on text similarity, face two major…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Junyi Lu , Xiaojia Li , Zihan Hua , Lei Yu , Shiqi Cheng , Li Yang , Fengjun Zhang , Chun Zuo

In this study, we explored an approach to automate the review process of software design documents by using LLM. We first analyzed the review methods of design documents and organized 11 review perspectives. Additionally, we analyzed the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Takasaburo Fukuda , Takao Nakagawa , Keisuke Miyazaki , Susumu Tokumoto

Code review is one of the primary means of assuring the quality of released software along with testing and static analysis. However, code review requires experienced developers who may not always have the time to perform an in-depth review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shweta Ramesh , Joy Bose , Hamender Singh , A K Raghavan , Sujoy Roychowdhury , Giriprasad Sridhara , Nishrith Saini , Ricardo Britto

Federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-preserving solution for fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) using distributed private datasets, enabling task-specific adaptation while preserving data privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Na Yan , Yang Su , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Code repair is a fundamental task in software development, facilitating efficient bug resolution and software maintenance. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated considerable potential in automated code repair, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dekun Dai , MingWei Liu , Anji Li , Jialun Cao , Yanlin Wang , Chong Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Modern software development teams are distributed across onsite and off-shore locations. Each team has developers with varying experience levels and English communication skills. In such a diverse development environment it is important to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Amol Patwardhan

State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive code generation capabilities but struggle with real-world software engineering tasks, such as revising source code to address code reviews, hindering their practical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hong Yi Lin , Chunhua Liu , Haoyu Gao , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude

We need ways to improve the code quality. Programmers have different level of tenure and experience. Standard and programming languages change and we are forced to re-use legacy code with minimum revision. Programmers develop their habits…

Code completion is a prominent application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering. Due to the near real-time response requirements of this task, base models with small to medium-sized parameters are typically employed,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dongjun Yu , Xiao Yan , Zhenrui Li , Jipeng Xiao , Haochuan He , Yongda Yu , Hao Zhang , Guoping Rong , Xiaobo Huang

Sequence-to-sequence models have been used to transform erroneous programs into correct ones when trained with a large enough dataset. Some recent studies also demonstrated strong empirical evidence that code review could improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Rishov Paul , Md. Mohib Hossain , Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Masum Hasan , Anindya Iqbal , Joanna C. S. Santos

Code completion, one of the most useful features in the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), can accelerate software development by suggesting the libraries, APIs, and method names in real-time. Recent studies have shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Fang Liu , Ge Li , Bolin Wei , Xin Xia , Zhiyi Fu , Zhi Jin

Code review, which aims at ensuring the overall quality and reliability of software, is a cornerstone of software development. Unfortunately, while crucial, Code review is a labor-intensive process that the research community is looking to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Xunzhu Tang , Kisub Kim , Yewei Song , Cedric Lothritz , Bei Li , Saad Ezzini , Haoye Tian , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

Modern code review is a critical quality assurance process that is widely adopted in both industry and open source software environments. This process can help newcomers learn from the feedback of experienced reviewers; however, it often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude , Wachiraphan Charoenwet

Code review is an essential process to ensure the quality of software that identifies potential software issues at an early stage of software development. Among all software issues, security issues are the most important to identify, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yun Peng , Kisub Kim , Linghan Meng , Kui Liu

Federated Learning (FL) with pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has emerged as a promising paradigm for various downstream tasks. By leveraging its strong representations, recent studies improve task adaptation under insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuting Ma , Lechao Cheng , Xiaohua Xu

Developers deal with code-change-related tasks daily, e.g., reviewing code. Pre-trained code and code-change-oriented models have been adapted to help developers with such tasks. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Lishui Fan , Jiakun Liu , Zhongxin Liu , David Lo , Xin Xia , Shanping Li

Code review has evolved for decades, from informal peer checking to today's pull request (PR) workflows, yet it remains a largely manual, uneven, and cognitively demanding process. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding assistants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hüseyin Özgür Kamalı , Erdem Tuna , Vahid Haratian , Eray Tüzün

Code review is a practice widely adopted in open source and industrial projects. Given the non-negligible cost of such a process, researchers started investigating the possibility of automating specific code review tasks. We recently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Rosalia Tufano , Simone Masiero , Antonio Mastropaolo , Luca Pascarella , Denys Poshyvanyk , Gabriele Bavota