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Shortage of available training data is holding back progress in the area of automated error detection. This paper investigates two alternative methods for artificially generating writing errors, in order to create additional resources. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Marek Rei , Mariano Felice , Zheng Yuan , Ted Briscoe

Code generation plays a crucial role in various tasks, such as code auto-completion and mathematical reasoning. Previous work has proposed numerous methods to enhance code generation performance, including integrating feedback from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Houxing Ren , Mingjie Zhan , Zhongyuan Wu , Aojun Zhou , Junting Pan , Hongsheng Li

Several recent advances in AI systems solve problems by providing a "scaffolding" program that structures multiple calls to language models (LMs) to generate better outputs. A scaffolding program is written in a programming language such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Eric Zelikman , Eliana Lorch , Lester Mackey , Adam Tauman Kalai

Ensemble methods are powerful machine learning algorithms that combine multiple models to enhance prediction capabilities and reduce generalization errors. However, their potential to generate effective test cases for fault detection in a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sheikh Md. Mushfiqur Rahman , Nasir U. Eisty

Reconstructing numerical simulations from control systems research papers is often hindered by underspecified parameters and ambiguous implementation details. We define the task of Paper to Simulation Recoverability, the ability of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Vineet Bhat , Shiqing Wei , Ali Umut Kaypak , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

We introduce TDFlow, a novel test-driven agentic workflow that frames repository-scale software engineering as a test-resolution task, specifically designed to solve human-written tests. Given a set of tests, TDFlow repeatedly proposes,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Kevin Han , Siddharth Maddikayala , Tim Knappe , Om Patel , Austen Liao , Amir Barati Farimani

Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) solvers and equality saturation engines must generate proof certificates from e-graph-based congruence closure procedures to enable verification and conflict clause generation. Smaller proof certificates…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Oliver Flatt , Samuel Coward , Max Willsey , Zachary Tatlock , Pavel Panchekha

We describe test code generation using Large Language Models (LLMs) in Ericsson. Our input is a test step in natural language (English) and our output is code (Java) which accomplishes the test step. We describe how straight forward…

Recent advances in automated test generation utilises language models to produce unit tests. While effective, language models tend to generate many incorrect tests with respect to both syntax and semantics. Although such incorrect tests can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Michael Konstantinou , Renzo Degiovanni , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Mike Papadakis

AI-driven software development has rapidly advanced with the emergence of software development agents that leverage large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex, repository-level software engineering tasks. These agents go beyond just…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhi Chen , Wei Ma , Lingxiao Jiang

Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops for iterative code editing, test execution, and solution refinement. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dayuan Fu , Shenyu Wu , Yunze Wu , Zerui Peng , Yaxing Huang , Jie Sun , Ji Zeng , Mohan Jiang , Lin Zhang , Yukun Li , Jiarui Hu , Liming Liu , Jinlong Hou , Pengfei Liu

We present SWE-Lego, a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) recipe designed to achieve state-ofthe-art performance in software engineering (SWE) issue resolving. In contrast to prevalent methods that rely on complex training paradigms (e.g.,…

Prior works on training software engineering agents have explored utilizing existing resources such as issues on GitHub repositories to construct software engineering tasks and corresponding test suites. These approaches face two key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yiqi Zhu , Apurva Gandhi , Graham Neubig

As production code evolves, the test suite must co-evolve to remain effective. Existing benchmarks for test evolution operate at method-level granularity with pre-paired inputs, bypassing the task of locating affected tests from the full…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ye Shang , Quanjun Zhang , Haichuan Hu , Chunrong Fang , Liang Xiao , Zhenyu Chen

Reproducing concurrency bugs is a complex task due to their unpredictable behavior. Researchers, regardless of gender, are contributing to automating this complex task to aid software developers. While some studies have investigated gender…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Tarannum Shaila Zaman , Macharla Hemanth Kishan , Lutfun Nahar Lota

Automated feedback generation for introductory programming assignments is useful for programming education. Most works try to generate feedback to correct a student program by comparing its behavior with an instructor's reference program on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Umair Z. Ahmed , Zhiyu Fan , Jooyong Yi , Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Abhik Roychoudhury

Is it possible to build a general and automatic natural language generation (NLG) evaluation metric? Existing learned metrics either perform unsatisfactorily or are restricted to tasks where large human rating data is already available. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Wenda Xu , Yilin Tuan , Yujie Lu , Michael Saxon , Lei Li , William Yang Wang

Search Based Software Testing (SBST) is a popular automated testing technique which uses a feedback mechanism to search for faults in software. Despite its popularity, it has fundamental challenges related to the design, construction and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Leonid Joffe , David J. Clark

Today, most automated test generators, such as search-based software testing (SBST) techniques focus on achieving high code coverage. However, high code coverage is not sufficient to maximise the number of bugs found, especially when given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Anjana Perera , Aldeida Aleti , Marcel Böhme , Burak Turhan

The process of testing any software system is an enormous task which is time consuming and costly. The time and required effort to do sufficient testing grow, as the size and complexity of the software grows, which may cause overrun of the…

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