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With the rapid growth of the developer community, the amount of posts on online technical forums has been growing rapidly, which poses difficulties for users to filter useful posts and find important information. Tags provide a concise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Xingfang Wu , Eric Laufer , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh , Santhosh Srinivasan , Jayden Luo

Previous studies have shown that high-quality code comments assist developers in program comprehension and maintenance tasks. However, the semi-structured nature of comments, unclear conventions for writing good comments, and the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Pooja Rani

Modern code review is a ubiquitous software quality assurance process aimed at identifying potential issues within newly written code. Despite its effectiveness, the process demands large amounts of effort from the human reviewers involved.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude , Michael W. Godfrey , Chunhua Liu , Wachiraphan Charoenwet

Code reasoning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) in the code domain. It involves understanding and predicting a program's execution behavior, such as determining the output for a given input or whether a specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lingxiao Tang , He Ye , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Lingfeng Bao

Empirical research on code review processes is increasingly central to understanding software quality and collaboration. However, collecting and analyzing review data remains a time-consuming and technically intensive task. Most researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Samah Kansab , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

In source code search, a common information-seeking strategy involves providing a short initial query with a broad meaning, and then iteratively refining the query using terms gleaned from the results of subsequent searches. This strategy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Zachary Eberhart , Collin McMillan

Code generation tasks aim to automate the conversion of user requirements into executable code, significantly reducing manual development efforts and enhancing software productivity. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sicong Liu , Yanxian Huang , Mingwei Liu , Jiachi Chen , Ensheng Shi , Yuchi Ma , Hongyu Zhang , Yin Zhang , Yanlin Wang

Motivation: Code understandability is crucial in software development, as developers spend 58% to 70% of their time reading source code. Improving it can improve productivity and reduce maintenance costs. Problem: Experimental studies often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Delano Oliveira , Reydne Santos , Benedito de Oliveira , Martin Monperrus , Fernando Castor , Fernanda Madeiral

In this short paper we propose a data augmentation method for intent detection in zero-resource domains. Existing data augmentation methods rely on few labelled examples for each intent category, which can be expensive in settings with many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 I-Fan Lin , Faegheh Hasibi , Suzan Verberne

Test cases are valuable assets for maintaining software quality. State-of-the-art automated test generation techniques typically focus on maximizing program branch coverage or translating focal methods into test code. However, in contrast…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Binhang Qi , Yun Lin , Xinyi Weng , Yuhuan Huang , Chenyan Liu , Hailong Sun , Zhi Jin , Jin Song Dong

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

The increasing volume of academic literature makes it essential for researchers to organize, compare, and contrast collections of documents. Large language models (LLMs) can support this process by generating schemas defining shared aspects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Vishakh Padmakumar , Joseph Chee Chang , Kyle Lo , Doug Downey , Aakanksha Naik

For visual content generation, discrepancies between user intentions and the generated content have been a longstanding problem. This discrepancy arises from two main factors. First, user intentions are inherently complex, with subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yi Cheng , Ziwei Xu , Dongyun Lin , Harry Cheng , Yongkang Wong , Ying Sun , Joo Hwee Lim , Mohan Kankanhalli

Autonomous program improvement typically involves automatically producing bug fixes and feature additions. Such program improvement can be accomplished by a combination of large language model (LLM) and program analysis capabilities, in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Haifeng Ruan , Yuntong Zhang , Abhik Roychoudhury

With the advent of AI-based coding engines, it is possible to convert natural language requirements to executable code in standard programming languages. However, AI-generated code can be unreliable, and the natural language requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Martin Mirchev , Andreea Costea , Abhishek Kr Singh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Generating accurate code review comments remains a significant challenge due to the inherently diverse and non-unique nature of the task output. Large language models pretrained on both programming and natural language data tend to perform…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Md. Asif Haider , Ayesha Binte Mostofa , Sk. Sabit Bin Mosaddek , Anindya Iqbal , Toufique Ahmed

Like humans, large language models (LLMs) do not always generate the best output on their first try. Motivated by how humans refine their written text, we introduce Self-Refine, an approach for improving initial outputs from LLMs through…

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

A central function of code review is to increase understanding; helping reviewers understand a code change aids in knowledge transfer and finding bugs. Comments in code largely serve a similar purpose, helping future readers understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Nikitha Rao , Jason Tsay , Martin Hirzel , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has ushered in a new era in automated code translation across programming languages. Since most code-specific LLMs are pretrained on well-commented code from large repositories like GitHub, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Monika Gupta , Ajay Meena , Anamitra Roy Choudhury , Vijay Arya , Srikanta Bedathur