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Fault identification and testing has always been the most specific concern in the field of software development. To identify and testify the bug we should be aware of the source of the failure or any unwanted issue. In this paper, we are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Vishal Anand , Ramani S

Each year, thousands of people learn new visual categorization tasks -- radiologists learn to recognize tumors, birdwatchers learn to distinguish similar species, and crowd workers learn how to annotate valuable data for applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Neehar Kondapaneni , Pietro Perona , Oisin Mac Aodha

Machine Learning approaches are good in solving problems that have less information. In most cases, the software domain problems characterize as a process of learning that depend on the various circumstances and changes accordingly. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Saiqa Aleem , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Faheem Ahmed

Memory leaks are prevalent in various real-world software projects, thereby leading to serious attacks like denial-of-service. Though prior methods for detecting memory leaks made significant advance, they often suffer from low accuracy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hongliang Liang , Luming Yin , Guohao Wu , Yuxiang Li , Qiuping Yi , Lei Wang

Tile-based programming frameworks are increasingly adopted to write high-performance GPU kernels in domains such as deep learning and scientific computing. While these frameworks enhance productivity and hardware utilization, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Zihe Song , Nidhi Majoju , Aaryaa Moharir , Tingxi Li , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

Bounding boxes are often used to communicate automatic object detection results to humans, aiding humans in a multitude of tasks. We investigate the relationship between bounding box localization errors and human task performance. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Sven de Witte , Ombretta Strafforello , Jan van Gemert

Debugging represents a time-consuming and labor-intensive task in hardware design, with bug localization constituting a substantial portion of this process. While spectrum-based bug localization techniques have achieved remarkable success…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jiaping Tang , Jianan Mu , Tianyun Ma , Zhiteng Chao , Jing Ye , Huawei Li

When we encounter a new person or place, we may easily encode it into our memories, or we may quickly forget it. Recent work finds that this likelihood of encoding a given entity - memorability - is highly consistent across viewers and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-21 Wilma A. Bainbridge

Over the years of challenges on detecting the crash consistency of non-volatile persistent memory (PM) bugs and developing new tools to identify those bugs are quite stretching due to its inconsistent behavior on the file or storage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-22 Jahid Hasan

Existing attention mechanisms are trained to attend to individual items in a collection (the memory) with a predefined, fixed granularity, e.g., a word token or an image grid. We propose area attention: a way to attend to areas in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yang Li , Lukasz Kaiser , Samy Bengio , Si Si

For a given software bug report, identifying an appropriate developer who could potentially fix the bug is the primary task of a bug triaging process. A bug title (summary) and a detailed description is present in most of the bug tracking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Senthil Mani , Anush Sankaran , Rahul Aralikatte

Knowledge-based systems reason over some knowledge base. Hence, an important issue for such systems is how to acquire the knowledge needed for their inference. This paper assesses active learning methods for acquiring knowledge for "static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xueqi Yang , Zhe Yu , Junjie Wang , Tim Menzies

Despite huge software engineering efforts and programming language support, resource and memory leaks are still a troublesome issue, even in memory-managed languages such as Java. Understanding the properties of leak-inducing defects, how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mohammadreza Ghanavati , Diego Costa , Janos Seboek , David Lo , Artur Andrzejak

Conventional debugging techniques used in traditional software are similarly used when debugging video games. However, the reality of video games require its own set of unique debugging techniques such as On-Screen Console, Debug Draws,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Carlos Pinto Gomez , Fabio Petrillo

Background: Developers spend a significant amount of time and efforts to localize bugs. In the literature, many researchers proposed state-of-the-art bug localization models to help developers localize bugs easily. The practitioners, on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Sravya Polisetty , Andriy Miranskyy , Ayse Bener

Automatically locating buggy changesets associated with bug reports is crucial in the software development process. Deep Learning (DL)-based techniques show promising results by leveraging structural information from the code and learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom , Leuson Da Silva , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

As quantum programming evolves, more and more quantum programming languages are being developed. As a result, debugging and testing quantum programs have become increasingly important. While bug fixing in classical programs has come a long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Junjie Luo , Pengzhan Zhao , Zhongtao Miao , Shuhan Lan , Jianjun Zhao

Software bugs significantly contribute to software cost and increase the risk of system malfunctioning. In recent years, many automated program-repair approaches have been proposed to automatically fix undesired program behavior. Despite of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Dirk Beyer , Lars Grunske , Thomas Lemberger , Minxing Tang

Debugging, finding and fixing bugs in code, is a heterogeneous process that shapes novice learners' self-beliefs and motivation in computing. Our Debugging by Design intervention (DbD) provocatively puts students in control over bugs by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Luis Morales-Navarro , Deborah A. Fields , Michael Giang , Yasmin B Kafai

We conduct large-scale studies on `human attention' in Visual Question Answering (VQA) to understand where humans choose to look to answer questions about images. We design and test multiple game-inspired novel attention-annotation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-20 Abhishek Das , Harsh Agrawal , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra