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Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Damian Gnieciak , Tomasz Szandala

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, has introduced a new set of tools to support software developers in solving pro- gramming tasks. However, our understanding of the interactions (i.e., prompts) between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Julyanara R. Silva , Carlos Eduardo C. Dantas , Marcelo A. Maia

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using software. However, it is difficult for non-technical users to write clear descriptions about the bug occurrence.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

Ensuring that code accurately reflects the algorithms and methods described in research papers is critical for maintaining credibility and fostering trust in AI research. This paper presents a novel system designed to verify code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Rajat Keshri , Arun George Zachariah , Michael Boone

Logs have been widely adopted in software system development and maintenance because of the rich runtime information they record. In recent years, the increase of software size and complexity leads to the rapid growth of the volume of logs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jieming Zhu , Shilin He , Pinjia He , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

Many software projects employ manual code review to gatekeep defects and vulnerabilities in the code before integration. However, reviewers often work under time pressure and rely primarily on static inspection, leaving the dynamic aspects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Van-Thuan Pham , Christoph Treude

In recent years, the rise of AI-assisted code-generation tools has significantly transformed software development. While code generators have mainly been used to support conventional software development, their use will be extended to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Simon Torka , Sahin Albayrak

Solidity compiler plays a key role in enabling the development of smart contract applications on Ethereum by governing the syntax of a domain-specific language called Solidity and performing compilation and optimization of Solidity code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Haoyang Ma , Wuqi Zhang , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Debugging CUDA programs has long been challenging because failures often arise from subtle interactions among hardware behavior, compiler decisions, memory hierarchy, and asynchronous execution. More importantly, with the rapid expansion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shiyang Li , Haoyang Chen , Mattia Fazzini , Caiwen Ding

As part of the process of resolving issues submitted by users via bug reports, Android developers attempt to reproduce and observe the failures described by the bug report. Due to the low-quality of bug reports and the complexity of modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhaoxu Zhang , Robert Winn , Yu Zhao , Tingting Yu , William G. J. Halfond

Artificial Intelligence systems, which benefit from the availability of large-scale datasets and increasing computational power, have become effective solutions to various critical tasks, such as natural language understanding, speech…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Zhou Yang , Chenyu Wang , Jieke Shi , Thong Hoang , Pavneet Kochhar , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , David Lo

Open source software development has become more social and collaborative, evident GitHub. Since 2016, GitHub started to support more informal methods such as emoji reactions, with the goal to reduce commenting noise when reviewing any code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Dong Wang , Tao Xiao , Teyon Son , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Yasutaka Kamei , Kenichi Matsumoto

Peer code review and continuous integration often interleave with each other in the modern software quality management. Although several studies investigate how non-technical factors (e.g., reviewer workload), developer participation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Bug reports document unexpected behaviors in software, enabling developers to understand, validate, and fix bugs. Unfortunately, a significant portion of bug reports is of low quality, which poses challenges for developers in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junayed Mahmud

Manual development of automatic tests for embedded C software is a strenuous and time-consuming task that does not scale well. With the accelerating pace of software release cycles, verification increasingly becomes the bottleneck in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Maximilian Harnot , Sebastian Komarnicki , Michal Polok , Timo Oksanen

Recent advancements in large language models, including GPT-4 and its variants, and Generative AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Tabnine, have significantly transformed software development. This paper analyzes how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vijay Joshi , Iver Band

Large language models (LLM) have proven to be effective at automated program repair (APR). However, using LLMs can be costly, with companies invoicing users by the number of tokens. In this paper, we propose CigaR, the first LLM-based APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Dávid Hidvégi , Khashayar Etemadi , Sofia Bobadilla , Martin Monperrus

Debugging is a crucial skill in programming education and software development, yet it is often overlooked in CS curricula. To address this, we introduce an AI-powered debugging assistant integrated into an IDE. It offers real-time support…

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven code generation tools are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding tasks. However, the security of AI-generated code using Large Language Models (LLMs) remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammed Kharma , Soohyeon Choi , Mohammed AlKhanafseh , David Mohaisen

The automation of code review has been tackled by several researchers with the goal of reducing its cost. The adoption of deep learning in software engineering pushed the automation to new boundaries, with techniques imitating developers in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Rosalia Tufano , Ozren Dabić , Antonio Mastropaolo , Matteo Ciniselli , Gabriele Bavota