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Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

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Code revert prediction, a specialized form of software defect detection, aims to forecast or predict the likelihood of code changes being reverted or rolled back in software development. This task is very important in practice because by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yulong Pei , Salwa Alamir , Rares Dolga , Sameena Shah

The rapid pace of large-scale software development places increasing demands on traditional testing methodologies, often leading to bottlenecks in efficiency, accuracy, and coverage. We propose a novel perspective on software testing by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuchen Wang , Shangxin Guo , Chee Wei Tan

A long-standing open challenge for automated program repair is the overfitting problem, which is caused by having insufficient or incomplete specifications to validate whether a generated patch is correct or not. Most available repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Anastasiia Grishina , Leon Moonen

With the continued migration of storage to cloud database systems,the impact of slow queries in such systems on services and user experience is increasing. Root-cause diagnosis plays an indispensable role in facilitating slow-query…

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) plays a pivotal role in the incident diagnosis process for cloud services, requiring on-call engineers to identify the primary issues and implement corrective actions to prevent future recurrences. Improving the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xuchao Zhang , Supriyo Ghosh , Chetan Bansal , Rujia Wang , Minghua Ma , Yu Kang , Saravan Rajmohan

The task of root cause analysis (RCA) is to identify the root causes of system faults/failures by analyzing system monitoring data. Efficient RCA can greatly accelerate system failure recovery and mitigate system damages or financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongjie Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Yanjie Fu , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen

Defect detection at commit check-in time prevents the introduction of defects into software systems. Current defect detection approaches rely on metric-based models which are not very accurate and whose results are not directly useful for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hareem Sahar , Yuxin Liu , Abram Hindle , Denilson Barbosa

Bug fixing is generally a manually-intensive task. However, recent work has proposed the idea of automated program repair, which aims to repair (at least a subset of) bugs in different ways such as code mutation, etc. Following in the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Hideaki Hata , Emad Shihab , Graham Neubig

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims at identifying the underlying causes of system faults by uncovering and analyzing the causal structure from complex systems. It has been widely used in many application domains. Reliable diagnostic conclusions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chang Gong , Di Yao , Jin Wang , Wenbin Li , Lanting Fang , Yongtao Xie , Kaiyu Feng , Peng Han , Jingping Bi

Autonomously detecting and recovering from faults is one approach for reducing the operational complexity and costs associated with managing computing environments. We present a novel methodology for autonomously generating investigation…

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To assist IT service developers and operators in managing their increasingly complex service landscapes, there is a growing effort to leverage artificial intelligence in operations. To speed up troubleshooting, log anomaly detection has…

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Detecting Bug Inducing Commit (BIC) or Just in Time (JIT) defect prediction using Machine Learning (ML) based models requires tabulated feature values extracted from the source code or historical maintenance data of a software system.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Md Nadim , Banani Roy

Deep Learning (DL) applications are being used to solve problems in critical domains (e.g., autonomous driving or medical diagnosis systems). Thus, developers need to debug their systems to ensure that the expected behavior is delivered.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mohammad Wardat , Breno Dantas Cruz , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

We study the problem of semantic code repair, which can be broadly defined as automatically fixing non-syntactic bugs in source code. The majority of past work in semantic code repair assumed access to unit tests against which candidate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jacob Devlin , Jonathan Uesato , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

Credit card fraud has been a persistent issue since the last century, causing significant financial losses to the industry. The most effective way to prevent fraud is by contacting customers to verify suspicious transactions. However, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Menghao Huo , Kuan Lu , Qiang Zhu , Zhenrui Chen

Automated detection of vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) is critical for timely security patch deployment, as advisory databases lag patch releases by a median of 25 days and many fixes never receive advisories. We present a comprehensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nils Loose , Joseph Bienhüls , Kristoffer Hempel , Felix Mächtle , Thomas Eisenbarth

Localizing the root cause of network faults is crucial to network operation and maintenance. However, due to the complicated network architectures and wireless environments, as well as limited labeled data, accurately localizing the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chaoli Zhang , Zhiqiang Zhou , Yingying Zhang , Linxiao Yang , Kai He , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

Runtime nondeterminism is a fact of life in modern database applications. Previous research has shown that nondeterminism can cause applications to intermittently crash, become unresponsive, or experience data corruption. We propose…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Anna Fariha , Suman Nath , Alexandra Meliou

Ensuring the reliability and availability of complex networked services demands effective root cause analysis (RCA) across cloud environments, data centers, and on-premises networks. Traditional RCA methods, which involve manual inspection…

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