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This demo presents the implementation and usage details of GASSERT, the first tool to automatically improve assertion oracles. Assertion oracles are executable boolean expressions placed inside the program that should pass (return true) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Valerio Terragni , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella , Mauro Pezzè

Unit tests often lack concise summaries that convey test intent, especially in auto-generated or poorly documented codebases. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution, but their effectiveness depends heavily on how they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Anamul Haque Mollah , Ahmed Aljohani , Hyunsook Do

Estimating software testability can crucially assist software managers to optimize test budgets and software quality. In this paper, we propose a new approach that radically differs from the traditional approach of pursuing testability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Luca Guglielmo , Leonardo Mariani , Giovanni Denaro

The security of computer systems typically relies on a hardware root of trust. As vulnerabilities in hardware can have severe implications on a system, there is a need for techniques to support security verification activities.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Rahul Kande , Hammond Pearce , Benjamin Tan , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Shailja Thakur , Ramesh Karri , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) play a critical role in detecting and debugging functional bugs in digital chip design. However, generating SVAs has traditionally been a manual, labor-intensive, and error-prone process. Recent advances in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Fenghua Wu , Evan Pan , Rahul Kande , Michael Quinn , Aakash Tyagi , David Kebo Houngninou , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Jiang Hu

Automatically discovering failures in vision models under real-world settings remains an open challenge. This work demonstrates how off-the-shelf, large-scale, image-to-text and text-to-image models, trained on vast amounts of data, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Olivia Wiles , Isabela Albuquerque , Sven Gowal

Assertion-based verification (ABV) serves as a crucial technique for ensuring that register-transfer level (RTL) designs adhere to their specifications. While Large Language Model (LLM) aided assertion generation approaches have recently…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongqin Lyu , Yonghao Wang , Yunlin Du , Mingyu Shi , Zhiteng Chao , Wenxing Li , Tiancheng Wang , Huawei Li

In computer science education, test cases are an integral part of programming assignments since they can be used as assessment items to test students' programming knowledge and provide personalized feedback on student-written code. The goal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Andrew Lan

Multi-agent systems are frequently employed for autonomous code generation, demonstrating strong utility in complex algorithmic problem-solving. Recent studies tackle the difficulty of producing functionally correct programs by leveraging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kaushitha Silva , Srinath Perera

This paper suggests an approach to the development of software testing and debugging automation tools based on precise program behavior models. The program behavior model is defined as a set of events (event trace) with two basic binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mikhail Auguston

Unit testing is an important practice that helps ensure the quality of a software system by validating its behavior through a series of test cases. Core to these test cases are assertion statements, which enable software practitioners to…

Credit scoring models based on accepted applications may be biased and their consequences can have a statistical and economic impact. Reject inference is the process of attempting to infer the creditworthiness status of the rejected…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-09-27 Rogelio A. Mancisidor , Michael Kampffmeyer , Kjersti Aas , Robert Jenssen

While language models have shown remarkable performance across diverse tasks, they still encounter challenges in complex reasoning scenarios. Recent research suggests that language models trained on linearized search traces toward…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Seungyong Moon , Bumsoo Park , Hyun Oh Song

Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) is critical for ensuring functional correctness in modern hardware systems. However, manually writing high-quality SVAs remains labor-intensive and error-prone. To bridge this gap, we propose AssertCoder,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Enyuan Tian , Yiwei Ci , Qiusong Yang , Yufeng Li , Zhichao Lyu

Machine learning models are widely used, but can also often be wrong. Users would benefit from a reliable indication of whether a given output from a given model should be trusted, so a rational decision can be made whether to use the…

Writing tests is a time-consuming yet essential task during software development. We propose to leverage recent advances in deep learning for text and code generation to assist developers in writing tests. We formalize the novel task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Pengyu Nie , Rahul Banerjee , Junyi Jessy Li , Raymond J. Mooney , Milos Gligoric

Model-based testing (MBT) is a method that supports the design and execution of test cases by models that specify the intended behaviors of a system under test. While systematic literature reviews on MBT in general exist, the state of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Waleed Abdeen , Xingru Chen , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Deep learning (DL) applications are prevalent nowadays as they can help with multiple tasks. DL libraries are essential for building DL applications. Furthermore, DL operators are the important building blocks of the DL libraries, that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jingyi Shi , Yang Xiao , Yuekang Li , Yeting Li , Dongsong Yu , Chendong Yu , Hui Su , Yufeng Chen , Wei Huo

The success of several constraint-based modeling languages such as OPL, ZINC, or COMET, appeals for better software engineering practices, particularly in the testing phase. This paper introduces a testing framework enabling automated test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Nadjib Lazaar , Arnaud Gotlieb , Lebbah Yahia

Unit testing validates the correctness of the unit under test and has become an essential activity in software development process. A unit test consists of a test prefix that drives the unit under test into a particular state, and a test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Weifeng Sun , Hongyan Li , Meng Yan , Yan Lei , Hongyu Zhang