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An extreme transformation removes the body of a method that is reached by one test case at least. If the test suite passes on the original program and still passes after the extreme transformation, the transformation is said to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Oscar Luis Vera-Pérez , Benjamin Danglot , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

Unit testing validates the correctness of the units of the software system under test and serves as the cornerstone in improving software quality and reliability. To reduce manual efforts in writing unit tests, some techniques have been…

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The versatility of Large Language Models (LLMs) in vertical domains has spurred the development of numerous specialized evaluation benchmarks. However, these benchmarks often suffer from significant semantic redundancy and impose high…

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Scaling automated formal verification to real-world projects requires resolving cross-module dependencies and global contexts, which are challenges overlooked by existing function-centric methods. We introduce RagVerus, a framework that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sicheng Zhong , Jiading Zhu , Yifang Tian , Xujie Si

Theorem provers has been used extensively in software engineering for software testing or verification. However, software is now so large and complex that additional architecture is needed to guide theorem provers as they try to generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jianfeng Chen , Xipeng Shen , Tim Menzies

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in code generation tasks, but their performance in tackling programming problems with complex data structures and algorithms remains suboptimal. To address this issue, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Xueyu Hu , Kun Kuang , Jiankai Sun , Hongxia Yang , Fei Wu

While deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, they typically require massive training data. Due to the presence of redundancies and biases in real-world datasets, not all data in the training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Suorong Yang , Hongchao Yang , Suhan Guo , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Recurrent neural networks are good at solving prediction problems. However, finding a network that suits a problem is quite hard because their performance is strongly affected by their architecture configuration. Automatic architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andrés Camero , Jamal Toutouh , Enrique Alba

Growth of software size, lack of resources to perform regression testing, and failure to detect bugs faster have seen increased reliance on continuous integration and test automation. Even with greater hardware and software resources…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Eduard Enoiu , Mirgita Frasheri

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong visual-language reasoning but suffer from high inference cost due to redundant visual tokens. Recent work explores visual token pruning to accelerate inference, while existing pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xiwen Chen , Wenhui Zhu , Gen Li , Xuanzhao Dong , Yujian Xiong , Hao Wang , Peijie Qiu , Qingquan Song , Zhipeng Wang , Shao Tang , Yalin Wang , Abolfazl Razi

High quality bugs are key to training the next generation of language model based software engineering (SWE) agents. We introduce a novel method for synthetic generation of difficult and diverse bugs. Our method instructs SWE Agents to…

Continual supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the de facto recipe for adapting large language models (LLMs) to a stream of downstream tasks, but it suffers from catastrophic forgetting of earlier capabilities. Recent work shows that on-policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yan Chen , Taojie Zhu , Meng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jiaqi Huang , Dongyang Xu , Yizhi Wang

Reproducing computational research is often assumed to be as simple as rerunning the original code with provided data. In practice, missing packages, fragile file paths, version conflicts, or incomplete logic frequently cause analyses to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Syed Mehtab Hussain Shah , Frank Hopfgartner , Arnim Bleier

Foundation model reliability assessment typically requires thousands of evaluation examples, making it computationally expensive and time-consuming for real-world deployment. We introduce microprobe, a novel approach that achieves…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Aayam Bansal , Ishaan Gangwani

Designing optimisation algorithms that perform well in general requires experimentation on a range of diverse problems. Training neural networks is an optimisation task that has gained prominence with the recent successes of deep learning.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Katherine M. Malan , Christopher W. Cleghorn

Automated model-based test generation presents a viable alternative to the costly manual test creation currently employed for regression testing of web apps. However, existing model inference techniques rely on threshold-based whole-page…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Rahulkrishna Yandrapally , Ali Mesbah

Bugs, especially those in concurrent systems, are often hard to reproduce because they manifest only under rare conditions. Testers frequently encounter failures that occur only under specific inputs, even when occurring with low…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yeshayahu Weiss , Gal Amram , Achiya Elyasaf , Eitan Farchi , Oded Margalit , Gera Weiss

Automated test generators, such as search based software testing (SBST) techniques, replace the tedious and expensive task of manually writing test cases. SBST techniques are effective at generating tests with high code coverage. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Anjana Perera

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

Patch reviewing is critical for software development, especially in distributed open-source development, which highly depends on voluntary work, such as Linux. This paper studies the past 10 years of patch reviews of the Linux memory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chih-En Lin , Attreyee Mukherjee , Ajay Rawat , Ruqi Zhang , Pedro Fonseca