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Software testing is crucial for ensuring the correctness and reliability of software systems. Automated generation of issue reproduction tests from natural language issue descriptions enhances developer productivity by simplifying root…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Aditya Bharat Soni , Rajat Ghosh , Vaishnavi Bhargava , Valerie Chen , Debojyoti Dutta

Benchmarks driven by test suites, notably SWE-bench, have become the de facto standard for measuring the effectiveness of automated issue-resolution agents: a generated patch is accepted whenever it passes the accompanying regression tests.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Chenglin Li , Yisen Xu , Zehao Wang , Shin Hwei Tan , Tse-Hsun , Chen

A software engineering issue (SWE issue) is easier to resolve when accompanied by a reproduction test. Unfortunately, most issues do not come with functioning reproduction tests, so this paper explores how to generate them automatically.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Avraham Shinnar , Martin Hirzel

Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cost of software maintenance. Automated test case generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Claus Klammer , Dietmar Pfahl , Stefan Fischer , Rudolf Ramler

While there has been plenty of work on generating tests from existing code, there has been limited work on generating tests from issues. A correct test must validate the code patch that resolves the issue. This paper focuses on the scenario…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Rangeet Pan , Avraham Shinnar , Saurabh Sinha , Martin Hirzel

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential in automatic program repair (APR), especially in repository-level settings where the goal is to generate patches based on natural language issue descriptions, large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anvith Pabba , Simin Chen , Alex Mathai , Anindya Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray

Test-time scaling has been widely adopted to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in software engineering (SWE) tasks. However, the standard approach of repeatedly sampling trajectories from scratch is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yifeng Ding , Lingming Zhang

Identifying the root cause of a bug remains difficult for many developers because bug reports often lack a bug reproducing test case that reliably triggers the failure. Manually writing such test cases is time-consuming and requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhiwei Fei , Yue Pan , Federica Sarro , Jidong Ge , Marc Liu , Vincent Ng , He Ye

In recent years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been extensively studied in academia and even drawn wide attention from industry. However, APR techniques can be extremely time consuming since (1) a large number of patches can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yiling Lou , Jun Yang , Samuel Benton , Dan Hao , Lin Tan , Zhenpeng Chen , Lu Zhang , Lingming Zhang

Given an issue on a software repository, a reproduction test confirms its presence in the code before it gets fixed and its absence after. Reproduction tests provide crucial execution-based feedback for diagnosis and validation during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Toufique Ahmed , Jatin Ganhotra , Avraham Shinnar , Martin Hirzel

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

Many automated test generation techniques have been developed to aid developers with writing tests. To facilitate full automation, most existing techniques aim to either increase coverage, or generate exploratory inputs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Sungmin Kang , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

Automated tools for solving GitHub issues are receiving significant attention by both researchers and practitioners, e.g., in the form of foundation models and LLM-based agents prompted with issues. A crucial step toward successfully…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Noor Nashid , Islem Bouzenia , Michael Pradel , Ali Mesbah

The issue-resolving task, where a model generates patches to fix real-world bugs, has emerged as a critical benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While SWE-bench and its variants have become standard in…

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the software engineering landscape. Recently, numerous LLM-based agents have been developed to address real-world software issue fixing tasks. Despite their state-of-the-art performance, Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Binbin Chen , Haoxuan Lan , Hang Yu , Peng Di , Cuiyun Gao

Lean processes focus on doing only necessery things in an efficient way. Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning offer new opportunities to optimizing processes. The presented approach demonstrates an improvement of the test process by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Alexander Poth , Quirin Beck , Andreas Riel

Regression Testing is exclusively executed to guarantee the desirable functionality of existing software after pursuing quite a few amendments or variations in it. Perhaps, it testifies the quality of the modified software by concealing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-12-10 R. Beena , S. Sarala

Behavior of deep neural networks can be inconsistent between different versions. Regressions during model update are a common cause of concern that often over-weigh the benefits in accuracy or efficiency gain. This work focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yuqing Xie , Yi-an Lai , Yuanjun Xiong , Yi Zhang , Stefano Soatto

In this article, we describe the regression test process to test and verify the changes made on software. A developed technique use the automation test based on decision tree and test selection process in order to reduce the testing cost is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-28 Seifedine Kadry

Parallel scaling has emerged as a powerful paradigm to enhance reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) by generating multiple Chain-of-Thought (CoT) traces simultaneously. However, this approach introduces significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shangqing Tu , Yaxuan Li , Yushi Bai , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li
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