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Software testing is an essential part of the software lifecycle and requires a substantial amount of time and effort. It has been estimated that software developers spend close to 50% of their time on testing the code they write. For these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Cody Watson , Michele Tufano , Kevin Moran , Gabriele Bavota , Denys Poshyvanyk

With ChatGPT-like large language models (LLM) prevailing in the community, how to evaluate the ability of LLMs is an open question. Existing evaluation methods suffer from following shortcomings: (1) constrained evaluation abilities, (2)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jiaju Lin , Haoran Zhao , Aochi Zhang , Yiting Wu , Huqiuyue Ping , Qin Chen

Autonomous AI agents are being deployed with filesystem access, email control, and multi-step planning. This thesis contributes to four open problems in AI safety: understanding dangerous internal computations, removing dangerous behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Aengus Lynch

Recent In-IDE AI coding assistant tools (ACATs) like GitHub Copilot have significantly impacted developers' coding habits. While some studies have examined their effectiveness, there lacks in-depth investigation into the actual assistance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin Tan , Xiao Long , Xianjun Ni , Yinghao Zhu , Jing Jiang , Li Zhang

Agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for performing sophisticated software engineering tasks autonomously. In addition, there has been progress towards developing agents that can perform parts of the research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nicholas Edwards , Yukyung Lee , Yujun Audrey Mao , Yulu Qin , Sebastian Schuster , Najoung Kim

Test-time scaling has become a standard way to improve performance and boost reliability of neural network models. However, its behavior on agentic, multi-step tasks remains less well-understood: small per-step errors can compound over long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Nicholas Lee , Lutfi Eren Erdogan , Chris Joseph John , Surya Krishnapillai , Michael W. Mahoney , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

Agents centered around Large Language Models (LLMs) are now capable of automating mobile device operations for users. After fine-tuning to learn a user's mobile operations, these agents can adhere to high-level user instructions online.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tinghe Ding

The emergence of AI-driven web automation through Large Language Models (LLMs) offers unprecedented opportunities for optimizing digital workflows. However, deploying such systems within industry's real-world environments presents four core…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ankur Tomar , Hengyue Liang , Indranil Bhattacharya , Natalia Larios , Francesco Carbone

Web applications are prime targets for cyberattacks as gateways to critical services and sensitive data. Traditional penetration testing is costly and expertise-intensive, making it difficult to scale with the growing web ecosystem. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xiaoxue Ren , Penghao Jiang , Kaixin Li , Zhiyong Huang , Xiaoning Du , Jiaojiao Jiang , Zhenchang Xing , Jiamou Sun , Terry Yue Zhuo

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly employed to automate complex software engineering tasks, such as program repair and issue resolution. These agents operate by autonomously generating natural language thoughts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel

Static analyzers play a critical role in identifying bugs early in the software development lifecycle, but their rule implementations are often under-tested and prone to inconsistencies. To address this, we propose StaAgent, an agentic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Elijah Nnorom , Md Basim Uddin Ahmed , Jiho Shin , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based Agents have been applied to fix bugs automatically, demonstrating the capability in addressing software defects by engaging in development environment interaction, iterative validation and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiangxin Meng , Zexiong Ma , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require diverse and safety-critical traffic scenarios for effective training and testing, but the existing data generation methods struggle to provide flexibility and scalability. We propose LASER, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hao Gao , Jingyue Wang , Wenyang Fang , Jingwei Xu , Yunpeng Huang , Taolue Chen , Xiaoxing Ma

With the advancement of web techniques, they have significantly revolutionized various aspects of people's lives. Despite the importance of the web, many tasks performed on it are repetitive and time-consuming, negatively impacting overall…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Liangbo Ning , Ziran Liang , Zhuohang Jiang , Haohao Qu , Yujuan Ding , Wenqi Fan , Xiao-yong Wei , Shanru Lin , Hui Liu , Philip S. Yu , Qing Li

The Web of Agents (WoA) transforms the document-centric Web into an environment of autonomous agents acting on users' behalf, a vision newly tractable as large language models (LLMs) mature. We argue that across three decades the WoA has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tatiana Petrova , Boris Bliznioukov , Aleksandr Puzikov , Radu State

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to both research and daily operations, rigorous evaluation is crucial. This assessment is important not only for individual tasks but also for understanding their societal impact and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zeeshan Rasheed , Muhammad Waseem , Kari Systä , Pekka Abrahamsson

Browser agents enable autonomous web interaction but face critical reliability and security challenges in production. This paper presents findings from building and operating a production browser agent. The analysis examines where current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Aram Vardanyan

Web accessibility remains an unresolved issue for a large part of the web content. There are many tools to detect errors automatically, but fixing those issues is still mostly a manual, slow, and costly process in which it is easy for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Carla Fernández-Navarro , Francisco Chicano

Web agents, which couple language models with browsing and tool-use capabilities, show promise as open web assistants. Yet progress is increasingly limited by the lack of scalable, process-level supervision. Existing benchmarks are largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tenghao Huang , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Yilun Zhou , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May , Chien-Sheng Wu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and test generation. More recently, researchers and industry…

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