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LLM-integrated software, which embeds or interacts with large language models (LLMs) as functional components, exhibits probabilistic and context-dependent behaviors that fundamentally differ from those of traditional software. This shift…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Gou Tan , Zilong He , Min Li , Pengfei Chen , Jieke Shi , Zhensu Sun , Ting Zhang , Danwen Chen , Lwin Khin Shar , Chuanfu Zhang , David Lo

Fault Localization (FL) aims to identify root causes of program failures. FL typically targets failures observed from test executions, and as such, often involves dynamic analyses to improve accuracy, such as coverage profiling or mutation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sungmin Kang , Sumi Yun , Jingun Hong , Shin Yoo , Gabin An

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) must continuously learn and update knowledge to remain effective in dynamic real-world environments. While Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for such memory updates, existing studies mainly rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziwen Xu , Haiwen Hong , Linsong Yu , Benglei Cui , Longtao Huang , Hui Xue , Ningyu Zhang

Statistical fault localization (SFL) techniques use execution profiles and success/failure information from software executions, in conjunction with statistical inference, to automatically score program elements based on how likely they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yigit Kucuk , Tim A. D. Henderson , Andy Podgurski

Providing personalized and timely feedback for student's programming assignments is useful for programming education. Automated program repair (APR) techniques have been used to fix the bugs in programming assignments, where the Large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fang Liu , Zhenwei Liu , Qianhui Zhao , Jing Jiang , Li Zhang , Ge Li , Zian Sun , Zhongqi Li , Yuchi Ma

Despite being one of the most basic tasks in software development, debugging is still performed in a mostly manual way, leading to high cost and low performance. To address this problem, researchers have studied promising approaches, such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Higor A. de Souza , Marcos L. Chaim , Fabio Kon

Software failures remain a major challenge in modern software development, and identifying the code elements responsible for failures is a time-consuming debugging task. While extensive research has focused on fault localization in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Golnaz Gharachorlu , Mahsa Panahandeh , Lionel C. Briand , Ruifeng Gao , Ruiyuan Wan

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

In a buggy configurable system, configuration-dependent bugs cause the failures in only certain configurations due to unexpected interactions among features. Manually localizing configuration-dependent faults in configurable systems could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Son Nguyen

Software vulnerabilities continue to be ubiquitous, even in the era of AI-powered code assistants, advanced static analysis tools, and the adoption of extensive testing frameworks. It has become apparent that we must not simply prevent…

Patching severe security flaws in complex software remains a major challenge. While automated tools like fuzzers efficiently discover bugs, fixing deep-rooted low-level faults (e.g., use-after-free and memory corruption) still requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Maolin Sun , Yibiao Yang , Xuanlin Liu , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu

Large language models (LLMs) are highly compute- and memory-intensive, posing significant demands on high-performance GPUs. At the same time, advances in GPU technology driven by shrinking transistor sizes and lower operating voltages have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Duo Chai , Zizhen Liu , Shuhuai Wang , Songwei Pei , Cheng Liu , Huawei Li , Shangguang Wang

Web-based test automation heavily relies on accurately finding web elements. Traditional methods compare attributes but don't grasp the context and meaning of elements and words. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Michel Nass , Emil Alegroth , Robert Feldt

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been suggested for use in automated vulnerability repair, but benchmarks showing they can consistently identify security-related bugs are lacking. We thus develop SecLLMHolmes, a fully automated evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Saad Ullah , Mingji Han , Saurabh Pujar , Hammond Pearce , Ayse Coskun , Gianluca Stringhini

Large language model (LLM)-based debugging systems can generate failure explanations, but these explanations may be incomplete or incorrect. Misleading explanations are harmful for downstream tasks (e.g., bug triage, bug fixing). We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julius Porbeck , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese

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

LLMs are rapidly being adopted to build powerful tools and agents for software engineering, but most of them rely heavily on extremely large closed-source models. This, in turn, can hinder wider adoption due to security issues as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hyunjoon Cho , Sungmin Kang , Gabin An , Shin Yoo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in Automated Program Repair (APR). Test inputs, being crucial for reasoning the root cause of failures, are always included in the prompt for LLM-based APR. Unfortunately, LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Boyang Yang , Luyao Ren , Xin Yin , Jiadong Ren , Haoye Tian , Shunfu Jin

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have enabled processing of larger inputs, leading everyday software developers to increasingly rely on chat-based large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to detect vulnerabilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Francesco Sovrano , Adam Bauer , Alberto Bacchelli