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With the rapid growth of software scale and complexity, a large number of bug reports are submitted to the bug tracking system. In order to speed up defect repair, these reports need to be accurately classified so that they can be sent to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Fanqi Meng , Xuesong Wang , Jingdong Wang , Peifang Wang

While CUDA has become a major parallel computing platform and programming model for general-purpose GPU computing, CUDA-induced bug patterns have not yet been well explored. In this paper, we conduct the first empirical study to reveal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Mingyuan Wu , Husheng Zhou , Lingming Zhang , Cong Liu , Yuqun Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) for code have gained significant attention recently. They can generate code in different programming languages based on provided prompts, fulfilling a long-lasting dream in Software Engineering (SE), i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Florian Tambon , Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais , Giuliano Antoniol

This paper proposes a supervised machine learning approach for predicting the root cause of a given bug report. Knowing the root cause of a bug can help developers in the debugging process - either directly or indirectly by choosing proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Bug fixing holds significant importance in software development and maintenance. Recent research has made substantial strides in exploring the potential of large language models (LLMs) for automatically resolving software bugs. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuwei Zhang , Zhi Jin , Ying Xing , Ge Li , Fang Liu , Jiaxin Zhu , Wensheng Dou , Jun Wei

Accurate classification of software bugs is essential for improving software quality. This paper presents a rule-based automated framework for classifying issues in quantum software repositories by bug type, category, severity, and impacted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mir Mohammad Yousuf , Shabir Ahmad Sofi

Software companies spend over 45 percent of cost in dealing with software bugs. An inevitable step of fixing bugs is bug triage, which aims to correctly assign a developer to a new bug. To decrease the time cost in manual work, text…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Yan Hu , Zhilei Ren , Weiqin Zou , Zhongxuan Luo , Xindong Wu

The recent advancement of artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (ML), has significantly impacted software engineering research, including bug report analysis. ML aims to automate the understanding, extraction, and correlation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Guoming Long , Jingzhi Gong , Hui Fang , Tao Chen

The autonomous discovery of bugs remains a significant challenge in modern software development. Compared to code generation, the complexity of dynamic runtime environments makes bug discovery considerably harder for large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shufan Jiang , Chios Chen , Zhiyang Chen

Since 2020, automated testing for Database Management Systems (DBMSs) has flourished, uncovering hundreds of bugs in widely-used systems. A cornerstone of these techniques is test oracle, which typically implements a mechanism to generate…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qiuyang Mang , Runyuan He , Suyang Zhong , Xiaoxuan Liu , Huanchen Zhang , Alvin Cheung

Static analysis is a widely used technique in software engineering for identifying and mitigating bugs. However, a significant hurdle lies in achieving a delicate balance between precision and scalability. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Haonan Li , Yu Hao , Yizhuo Zhai , Zhiyun Qian

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

Compilers are complex, and significant effort has been expended on testing them. Techniques such as random program generation and differential testing have proved highly effective and have uncovered thousands of bugs in production…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Davide Italiano , Chris Cummins

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a brilliant idea: when detecting a bug, also provide suggestions for correcting the program. Progress towards that goal is hindered by the absence of a common frame of reference for the multiplicity of APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Victoria Kananchuk , Ilgiz Mustafin , Bertrand Meyer

Software development teams generally welcome any effort to expose bugs in their code base. In this work, we build on the hypothesis that mobile apps from the same category (e.g., two web browser apps) may be affected by similar bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xunzhu Tang , Haoye Tian , Pingfan Kong , Kui Liu , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyande

During the life cycle of software development, developers have to fix different kinds of bugs reported by testers or end users. The efficiency and effectiveness of fixing bugs have a huge impact on the reliability of the software as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Jaechang Nam , Ning Chen

Traditional bug-tracking systems rely heavily on manual reporting, reproduction, classification, and resolution, involving multiple stakeholders such as end users, customer support, developers, and testers. This division of responsibilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Utku Boran Torun , Mehmet Taha Demircan , Mahmut Furkan Gön , Eray Tüzün

In the development and maintenance of Android apps, the quick and accurate reproduction of user-reported bugs is crucial to ensure application quality and improve user satisfaction. However, this process is often time-consuming and complex.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

Fault localization in modern processor design code is a critical yet time-consuming step during processor verification. While recent advances in LLM-based techniques for module-level hardware design have shown promising results,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zizhen Liu , Xiaoguang Mao , Deheng Yang , Jiayu He , Yihao Qin , Guangda Zhang , Yan Lei , Jianjun Xu , Jiang Wu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant potential to automate various software development tasks, including code completion, test generation, and bug fixing. However, the application of LLMs for automated bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yizhou Liu , Pengfei Gao , Xinchen Wang , Jie Liu , Yexuan Shi , Zhao Zhang , Chao Peng