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Software debugging, and program repair are among the most time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks in software engineering that would benefit a lot from automation. In this paper, we propose a novel automated program repair approach based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ehsan Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati

One of the key tasks related to ensuring mobile app quality is the reporting, management, and resolution of bug reports. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating various tasks of the bug management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jack Johnson , Junayed Mahmud , Tyler Wendland , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

A major problem with user-written bug reports, indicated by developers and documented by researchers, is the (lack of high) quality of the reported steps to reproduce the bugs. Low-quality steps to reproduce lead to excessive manual effort…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in machine translation, but they still struggle with contextually dependent terms, such as new or domain-specific words. This leads to inconsistencies and errors that are difficult to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Meiqi Chen , Fandong Meng , Yingxue Zhang , Yan Zhang , Jie Zhou

Automated program repair (APR) has attracted great research attention, and various techniques have been proposed. Search-based APR is one of the most important categories among these techniques. Existing researches focus on the design of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Ming Wen , Junjie Chen , Rongxin Wu , Dan Hao , Shing-Chi Cheung

By July 2025, smart contracts collectively manage roughly $120 billion in assets. With Solidity remaining the dominant language for smart contract development, the correctness of Solidity compilers has become critically important. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haoyang Ma , Alastair F. Donaldson , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Random testing (RT) is a well-studied testing method that has been widely applied to the testing of many applications, including embedded software systems, SQL database systems, and Android applications. Adaptive random testing (ART) aims…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Rubing Huang , Weifeng Sun , Yinyin Xu , Haibo Chen , Dave Towey , Xin Xia

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often face limitations in specialized domains such as fintech, where domain-specific ontologies, dense terminology, and acronyms complicate effective retrieval and synthesis. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Thomas Cook , Richard Osuagwu , Liman Tsatiashvili , Vrynsia Vrynsia , Koustav Ghosal , Maraim Masoud , Riccardo Mattivi

Property-based testing (PBT) relies on generators for random test cases, often constructed using embedded domain specific languages, which provide expressive combinators for building and composing generators. The effectiveness of PBT…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cynthia Richey , Joseph W. Cutler , Harrison Goldstein , Benjamin C. Pierce

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into software development processes. The ability to generate code and submit pull requests with minimal human intervention, through the use of autonomous AI agents, is poised to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Miku Watanabe , Hao Li , Yutaro Kashiwa , Brittany Reid , Hajimu Iida , Ahmed E. Hassan

Correcting bugs using modern Automated Program Repair (APR) can be both time-consuming and resource-expensive. We describe a program repair approach that aims to improve the scalability of modern APR tools. The approach leverages program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Linas Vidziunas , David Binkley , Leon Moonen

Debugging takes up a significant portion of developer time. As a result, automated debugging techniques including Fault Localization (FL) and Automated Program Repair (APR) have garnered significant attention due to their potential to aid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Sungmin Kang , Wonkeun Choi , Shin Yoo

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly being used when building Generative AI applications. Evaluating these applications and RAG pipelines is mostly done manually, via a trial and error process. Automating evaluation of RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shangeetha Sivasothy , Scott Barnett , Stefanus Kurniawan , Zafaryab Rasool , Rajesh Vasa

Automated program repair (APR) has recently shifted toward large language models and agent-based systems, yet most systems rely on local snapshot context, overlooking repository history. Prior work shows that repository history helps repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yu Shi , Hao Li , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

Bug localization remains a critical yet time-consuming challenge in large-scale software repositories. Traditional information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) methods rely on unchanged bug descriptions, which often contain noisy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Genevieve Caumartin , Glaucia Melo

Reproducing machine learning papers is essential for scientific progress but remains challenging for both humans and automated agents. Existing agent-based methods often struggle to fully and accurately reproduce implementation details such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingyang Zhou , Quanming Yao , Lun Du , Lanning Wei , Da Zheng

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly employed in generative AI-driven scientific workflows to integrate rapidly evolving scientific knowledge bases, yet its reliability is frequently compromised by non-determinism in their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Baiqiang Wang , Dongfang Zhao , Nathan R Tallent , Luanzheng Guo

Computational notebooks became indispensable tools for research-related development, offering unprecedented interactivity and flexibility in the development process. However, these benefits come at the cost of reproducibility and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Konstantin Grotov , Artem Borzilov , Maksim Krivobok , Timofey Bryksin , Yaroslav Zharov

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used for automated vulnerability repair (AVR), where repository-level reasoning enables them to inspect context and produce source-code patches. However, recent empirical results show that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Simiao Liu , Fang Liu , Li Zhang , Yang Liu , Yinghao Zhu

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