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Improving the quality of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models, and more specifically, task-oriented semantic parsing models, in production is a cumbersome task. In this work, we present a system called AutoNLU, which we designed to…

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Meeting summarization has become a critical task since digital encounters have become a common practice. Large language models (LLMs) show great potential in summarization, offering enhanced coherence and context understanding compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Frederic Kirstein , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Unit testing is critical for ensuring software quality and software system stability. The current practice of manually maintaining unit tests suffers from low efficiency and the risk of delayed or overlooked fixes. Therefore, an automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuanhe Zhang , Zhiquan Yang , Shengyi Pan , Zhongxin Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for automated test generation, yet most approaches to generating Java unit tests still rely on mocking frameworks to handle dependencies. Mockless test generation could exercise more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qinghua Xu , Guancheng Wang , Lionel Briand , Zhaoqiang Guo , Kui Liu

Software crash bugs cause unexpected program behaviors or even abrupt termination, thus demanding immediate resolution. However, resolving crash bugs can be challenging due to their complex root causes, which can originate from issues in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xueying Du , Mingwei Liu , Hanlin Wang , Juntao Li , Xin Peng , Yiling Lou

Autonomous agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being utilized in complex software systems. However, reliability remains a significant challenge due to unpredictable failures such as hallucinations, execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Cheonsu Jeong , Younggun Shin

Most programmers make mistakes when writing code. Some of these mistakes are small and require few edits to the original program -- a class of errors recently termed last mile mistakes. These errors break the flow for experienced developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Harshit Joshi , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Ivan Radicek , Gust Verbruggen

Large language models (LLMs) are being rapidly integrated into decision-support tools, automation workflows, and AI-enabled software systems. However, their behavior in production environments remains poorly understood, and their failure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Vaishali Vinay

Web accessibility remains an unresolved issue for a large part of the web content. There are many tools to detect errors automatically, but fixing those issues is still mostly a manual, slow, and costly process in which it is easy for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Carla Fernández-Navarro , Francisco Chicano

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in code translation due to their ability to generate idiomatic code. However, a significant limitation when using LLMs for code translation is scalability: existing works have shown a drop in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Hanliang Zhang , Cristina David , Meng Wang , Brandon Paulsen , Daniel Kroening

The existing deep learning (DL)-based automated program repair (APR) models are limited in fixing general software defects. % We present {\tool}, a DL-based approach that supports fixing for the general bugs that require dependent changes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

This study investigates the reliability of code generation by Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on identifying and analyzing defects in the generated code. Despite the advanced capabilities of LLMs in automating code generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ali Mohammadi Esfahani , Nafiseh Kahani , Samuel A. Ajila

With the increasing complexity and rapid expansion of the scale of AI systems in cloud platforms, the log data generated during system operation is massive, unstructured, and semantically ambiguous, which brings great challenges to fault…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Cheng Ji , Huaiying Luo

We present a method for systematically evaluating the correctness and robustness of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) for code generation via a new benchmark, Turbulence. Turbulence consists of a large set of natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shahin Honarvar , Mark van der Wilk , Alastair Donaldson

LLM-based mutation testing is a promising testing technology, but existing approaches typically rely on a fixed set of mutations as few-shot examples or none at all. This can result in generic low-quality mutations, missed context-specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bo Wang , Ming Deng , Mingda Chen , Chengran Yang , Youfang Lin , Mark Harman , Mike Papadakis , Jie M. Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) present an opportunity to scale high-quality personalized education to all. A promising approach towards this means is to build dialog tutoring models that scaffold students' problem-solving. However, even…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nico Daheim , Jakub Macina , Manu Kapur , Iryna Gurevych , Mrinmaya Sachan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software engineering, yet comprehensive benchmarks covering diverse SE activities remain limited. We present a multi-task evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Go Frendi Gunawan , Mukhlis Amien

We introduce SkipAnalyzer, a large language model (LLM)-powered tool for static code analysis. SkipAnalyzer has three components: 1) an LLM-based static bug detector that scans source code and reports specific types of bugs, 2) an LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Mahdi Mohajer , Reem Aleithan , Nima Shiri Harzevili , Moshi Wei , Alvine Boaye Belle , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in software engineering tasks, with an increased focus on bug report resolution over the past year. However, most proposed systems fail to properly handle uncertain or incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

Evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) applications differs from traditional software testing because outputs are stochastic, high-dimensional, and sensitive to prompt and model changes. We present an evaluation-driven workflow - Define,…

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