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Unit testing is critical for ensuring software quality and software system stability. The current practice of manually maintaining unit tests suffers from low efficiency and the risk of delayed or overlooked fixes. Therefore, an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuanhe Zhang , Zhiquan Yang , Shengyi Pan , Zhongxin Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated code repair but often struggle with the complex semantic and structural correctness required. We present SynthFix, a hybrid neural-symbolic framework that improves LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yifan Zhang , Jieyu Li , Kexin Pei , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Verifying hardware designs in embedded systems is crucial but often labor-intensive and time-consuming. While existing solutions have improved automation, they frequently rely on unrealistic assumptions. To address these challenges, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuchen Hu , Junhao Ye , Ke Xu , Jialin Sun , Shiyue Zhang , Xinyao Jiao , Dingrong Pan , Jie Zhou , Ning Wang , Weiwei Shan , Xinwei Fang , Xi Wang , Nan Guan , Zhe Jiang

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown very impressive capabilities in code generation across many programming languages. However, even state-of-the-art LLMs generate programs that contains syntactic errors and fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 David Jiahao Fu , Aryan Gupta , Aaron Councilman , David Grove , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in automating unit test generation, significantly reducing the manual effort required by developers. To effectively evaluate the capabilities of LLMs in this domain, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dong Huang , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Qianru Zhang , Mingzhe Du , See-Kiong Ng

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced automated unit test generation but face a critical limitation: they often neglect to construct the necessary test fixtures, which are the environmental setups required for a test to run. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Chengyi Wang , Pengyu Xue , Zhen Yang , Xiapu Luo , Yuxuan Zhang , Xiran Lyu , Yifei Pei , Zonghan Jia , Yichen Sun , Linhao Wu , Kunwu Zheng

Unit testing plays a pivotal role in software development, improving software quality and reliability. However, generating effective test cases manually is time-consuming, prompting interest in unit testing research. Recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ye Shang , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Jianyi Zhou , Zhenyu Chen

In games, and more generally in the field of software development, early detection of bugs is vital to maintain a high quality of the final product. Automated tests are a powerful tool that can catch a problem earlier in development by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Leonardo Marini , Linus Gisslén , Alessandro Sestini

Fault localization (FL) is a critical step in debugging, which typically relies on repeated executions to pinpoint faulty code regions. However, repeated executions can be impractical in the presence of non-deterministic failures or high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Golnaz Gharachorlu , Sakina Fatima , Lionel C. Briand , Ruiyuan Wan , Ruifeng Gao

Software development life cycle is profoundly influenced by bugs: their introduction, identification, and eventual resolution account for a significant portion of software cost. This has motivated software engineering researchers and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Matthew Jin , Syed Shahriar , Michele Tufano , Xin Shi , Shuai Lu , Neel Sundaresan , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

This paper describes our approach to automated program repair. We combine various techniques from the literature to achieve this. Our experiments show that our approach performs better than other techniques on standard benchmarks. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mahinthan Chandramohan , Jovan Jancic , Yuntong Zhang , Padmanabhan Krishnan

The practice of unit testing enables programmers to obtain automated feedback on whether a currently edited program is consistent with the expectations specified in test cases. Feedback is most valuable when it happens immediately, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Toni Mattis , Robert Hirschfeld

Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on repository-level feature implementation is a critical frontier in software engineering. However, establishing a benchmark that faithfully mirrors realistic development scenarios remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Haorui Chen , Chengze Li , Jia Li

Unit testing is a fundamental practice in modern software engineering, with the aim of ensuring the correctness, maintainability, and reliability of individual software components. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Ye Shang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Memory-related errors in C programming continue to pose significant challenges in software development, primarily due to the complexities of manual memory management inherent in the language. These errors frequently serve as vectors for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiao Cheng , Zhihao Guo , Huan Huo , Yulei Sui

Unit testing is crucial for detecting bugs in individual program units but consumes time and effort. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating unit test cases. However, several problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Siqi Gu , Quanjun Zhang , Kecheng Li , Chunrong Fang , Fangyuan Tian , Liuchuan Zhu , Jianyi Zhou , Zhenyu Chen

Automated unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing tools like EvoSuite, are capable of generating tests with high coverage. Although these generators alleviate the burden of writing unit tests, they often pose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Amirhossein Deljouyi , Roham Koohestani , Maliheh Izadi , Andy Zaidman

This paper presents LM-Fix, a lightweight detection and rapid recovery framework for faults in large language models (LLMs). Existing integrity approaches are often heavy or slow for modern LLMs. LM-Fix runs a short test-vector pass and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ahmad Tahmasivand , Noureldin Zahran , Saba Al-Sayouri , Mohammed Fouda , Khaled N. Khasawneh

Static analysis is a widely used technique in software engineering for identifying and mitigating bugs. However, a significant hurdle lies in achieving a delicate balance between precision and scalability. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Haonan Li , Yu Hao , Yizhuo Zhai , Zhiyun Qian

With the growing interest on Large Language Models (LLMs) for fault localization and program repair, ensuring the integrity and generalizability of the LLM-based methods becomes paramount. The code in existing widely-adopted benchmarks for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yonghao Wu , Zheng Li , Jie M. Zhang , Yong Liu
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