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Software testing helps developers to identify bugs. However, awareness of bugs is only the first step. Finding and correcting the faulty program components is equally hard and essential for high-quality software. Fault localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Hannes Thaller , Lukas Linsbauer , Alexander Egyed , Stefan Fischer

Unlike code completion, debugging requires localizing faults and applying targeted edits. We observe that frontier LLMs often regenerate correct but over-edited solutions during debugging. To evaluate how far LLMs are from precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wang Bill Zhu , Miaosen Chai , Shangshang Wang , Yejia Liu , Song Bian , Honghua Dong , Willie Neiswanger , Robin Jia

Open source projects often maintain open bug repositories during development and maintenance, and the reporters often point out straightly or implicitly the reasons why bugs occur when they submit them. The comments about a bug are very…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-03-21 Deqing Wang , Mengxiang Lin , Hui Zhang , Hongping Hu

Command injection vulnerabilities are a significant security threat in dynamic languages like Python, particularly in widely used open-source projects where security issues can have extensive impact. With the proven effectiveness of Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuxuan Wang , Jingshu Chen , Qingyang Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive proficiency in code generation. Unfortunately, these models share a weakness with their human counterparts: producing code that inadvertently has security vulnerabilities. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kamel Alrashedy , Abdullah Aljasser , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Matthew Gombolay

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive effectiveness in various software engineering tasks, including automated program repair (APR). In this study, we take a deep dive into automated bug fixing utilizing LLMs. In contrast to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Soneya Binta Hossain , Nan Jiang , Qiang Zhou , Xiaopeng Li , Wen-Hao Chiang , Yingjun Lyu , Hoan Nguyen , Omer Tripp

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

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations for various languages and 50 editors offering LSP integration.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hengcheng Zhu , Songqiang Chen , Valerio Terragni , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Novel AI-based code-writing Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's Codex have demonstrated capabilities in many coding-adjacent domains. In this work we consider how LLMs maybe leveraged to automatically repair security relevant bugs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Baleegh Ahmad , Shailja Thakur , Benjamin Tan , Ramesh Karri , Hammond Pearce

Regression bugs occur whenever software functionality that previously worked as desired stops working, or no longer works as expected. Code changes, such as bug fixes or new feature work, may result in a regression bug. Regression bugs are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Dekel Cohen , Amiram Yehudai

Background: Machine Learning (ML) systems rely on data to make predictions, the systems have many added components compared to traditional software systems such as the data processing pipeline, serving pipeline, and model training. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Tuan Dung Lai , Anj Simmons , Scott Barnett , Jean-Guy Schneider , Rajesh Vasa

Automated Program Repair (APR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing debugging time and improving the overall efficiency of software development. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shunyu Liu , Guangdong Bai , Mark Utting , Guowei Yang

Deep learning has gained substantial popularity in recent years. Developers mainly rely on libraries and tools to add deep learning capabilities to their software. What kinds of bugs are frequently found in such software? What are the root…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Md Johirul Islam , Giang Nguyen , Rangeet Pan , Hridesh Rajan

Bug reports contain the information developers need to triage and fix software bugs. However, unclear, incomplete, or ambiguous information may lead to delays and excessive manual effort spent on bug triage and resolution. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jagrit Acharya , Gouri Ginde

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code generation and comprehension, yet their application to complex software engineering tasks often suffers from low precision and limited interpretability. We present Repeton,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nguyen Phu Vinh , Anh Chung Hoang , Chris Ngo , Truong-Son Hy

The prevalence of malicious packages in open-source repositories, such as PyPI, poses a critical threat to the software supply chain. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising tool for automated security tasks, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ahmed Ryan , Ibrahim Khalil , Abdullah Al Jahid , Md Erfan , Sungbin Park , Akond Ashfaque Ur Rahman , Md Rayhanur Rahman

Bug detection and prevention is one of the most important goals of software quality assurance. Nowadays, many of the major problems faced by developers can be detected or even fixed fully or partially with automatic tools. However, recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Balázs Mosolygó , Norbert Vándor , Gábor Antal , Péter Hegedűs

Due to the impressive code comprehension ability of Large Language Models (LLMs), a few studies have proposed to leverage LLMs to locate bugs, i.e., LLM-based FL, and demonstrated promising performance. However, first, these methods are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chuyang Xu , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Gehao Zhang , Ming Liang , David Lo

Large Language Models(LLMs) have been actively integrated into modern software systems as critical components. LLM-in-the-loop vulnerabilities, where vulnerabilities are introduced by LLMs and their dependent downstream components, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yujie Ma , Jialin Rong , Chenxi Yang , Lili Quan , Xiaofei Xie , Yongqiang Lyu , Qiang Hu

Bug fixing holds significant importance in software development and maintenance. Recent research has made notable progress in exploring the potential of large language models (LLMs) for automatic bug fixing. However, existing studies often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuwei Zhang , Zhi Jin , Ying Xing , Ge Li
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