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Computational notebooks became indispensable tools for research-related development, offering unprecedented interactivity and flexibility in the development process. However, these benefits come at the cost of reproducibility and an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Konstantin Grotov , Sergey Titov , Yaroslav Zharov , Timofey Bryksin

Automatically generating bug reproduction tests (BRT) from issue descriptions is crucial for software maintenance. LLM-based approaches have shown great potential for this task. Their effectiveness heavily relies on retrieving high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Junyi Wang , Jialun Cao , Zhongxin Liu

With the application of deep learning technology, tools of DL framework testing are in high demand. Existing DL framework testing tools have limited coverage of bug types. For example, they lack the capability of effectively finding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xiaoyu Zhang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Shiwei Wang , Chao Shen

Despite decades of research, software bug localization remains challenging due to heterogeneous content and inherent ambiguities in bug reports. Existing methods, such as Information Retrieval (IR)-based approaches, often attempt to match…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

With Large Language Models (LLMs) being widely used across various tasks, detecting errors in their responses is increasingly crucial. However, little research has been conducted on error detection of LLM responses. Collecting error…

Context: Software performance is a critical non-functional requirement, appearing in many fields such as mission critical applications, financial, and real time systems. In this work we focused on early detection of performance bugs; our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Sokratis Tsakiltsidis , Andriy Miranskyy , Elie Mazzawi

Refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code without changing its external behavior while improving its internal structure. Refactoring engines are integral components of modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haibo Wang , Zhuolin Xu , Shin Hwei Tan

Duplicate bug reports make up 42% of all reports in bug tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla), causing significant maintenance overhead. Hence, detecting and resolving duplicate bug reports is essential for effective issue management.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Usmi Mukherjee , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

One of the critical phases in software development is software testing. Testing helps with identifying potential bugs and reducing maintenance costs. The goal of automated test generation tools is to ease the development of tests by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Amin Nikanjam , Vahid Majdinasab , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais

Agile teams juggle multiple tasks so professionals are often assigned to multiple projects, especially in service organizations that monitor and maintain a large suite of software for a large user base. If we could predict changes in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Rahul Krishna , Amritanshu Agrawal , Akond Rahman , Alexander Sobran , Tim Menzies

Reproducing game bugs, particularly crash bugs in continuously evolving games like Minecraft, is a notoriously manual, time-consuming, and challenging process to automate; insights from a key decision maker from Minecraft we interviewed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Eray Yapağcı , Yavuz Alp Sencer Öztürk , Eray Tüzün

Bug reports are common artefacts in software development. They serve as the main channel for users to communicate to developers information about the issues that they encounter when using released versions of software programs. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arthur D. Sawadogo , Quentin Guimard , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Naouel Moha

Code contains security and functional bugs. The process of identifying and localizing them is difficult and relies on human labor. In this work, we present a novel approach (FLAG) to assist human debuggers. FLAG is based on the lexical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Baleegh Ahmad , Benjamin Tan , Ramesh Karri , Hammond Pearce

Static analyzers help find bugs early by warning about recurring bug categories. While fixing these bugs still remains a mostly manual task in practice, we observe that fixes for a specific bug category often are repetitive. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Johannes Bader , Andrew Scott , Michael Pradel , Satish Chandra

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Software bugs cost technology providers (e.g., AT&T) billions annually and cause developers to spend roughly 50% of their time on bug resolution. Traditional methods for bug localization often analyze the suspiciousness of code components…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

The software development process is characterized by an iterative cycle of continuous functionality implementation and debugging, essential for the enhancement of software quality and adaptability to changing requirements. This process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yihao Qin , Shangwen Wang , Yan Lei , Zhuo Zhang , Bo Lin , Xin Peng , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

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

Developers often spend much effort and resources to debug a program. To help the developers debug, numerous information retrieval (IR)-based and spectrum-based bug localization techniques have been devised. IR-based techniques process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thong Hoang , Richard J. Oentaryo , Tien-Duy B. Le , David Lo

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