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With the increasing adoption of AI-driven tools in software development, large language models (LLMs) have become essential for tasks like code generation, bug fixing, and optimization. Tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Codeium…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Md Sultanul Islam Ovi , Nafisa Anjum , Tasmina Haque Bithe , Md. Mahabubur Rahman , Mst. Shahnaj Akter Smrity

In recent years, the rise of AI-assisted code-generation tools has significantly transformed software development. While code generators have mainly been used to support conventional software development, their use will be extended to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Simon Torka , Sahin Albayrak

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and applications has led to an increasingly complex security landscape. Developers of AI projects must contend not only with traditional software supply chain issues but also with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 The Anh Nguyen , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar

Software security is undoubtedly a major concern in today's software engineering. Although the level of awareness of security issues is often high, practical experiences show that neither preventive actions nor reactions to possible issues…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Gábor Antal , Márton Keleti , Péter Hegedűs

According to GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories, the exposure of secrets (API keys and other credentials) increased two-fold in 2021 compared to 2020, totaling more than six million secrets. However, no benchmark dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Setu Kumar Basak , Lorenzo Neil , Bradley Reaves , Laurie Williams

As AI-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot become popular, it is crucial to understand software developers' trust in AI tools -- a key factor for tool adoption and responsible usage. However, we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruotong Wang , Ruijia Cheng , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann

Millions of users leverage generative pretrained transformer (GPT)-based language models developed by leading model providers for a wide range of tasks. To support enhanced user interaction and customization, many platforms-such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sunday Oyinlola Ogundoyin , Muhammad Ikram , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Dali Kaafar

AI coding assistants are now used to generate production code in security-sensitive domains, yet the exploitability of their outputs remains unquantified. We address this gap with Broken by Default: a formal verification study of 3,500 code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Dominik Blain , Maxime Noiseux

Recent advancements in large language models, including GPT-4 and its variants, and Generative AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Tabnine, have significantly transformed software development. This paper analyzes how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vijay Joshi , Iver Band

Generative Pre-Trained Transformer models have been shown to be surprisingly effective at a variety of natural language processing tasks -- including generating computer code. We evaluate the effectiveness of open source GPT models for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Elijah Pelofske , Vincent Urias , Lorie M. Liebrock

Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can facilitate rapid prototyping. However, recent research shows that the shared code snippets may be of low quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Morteza Verdi , Ashkan Sami , Jafar Akhondali , Foutse Khomh , Gias Uddin , Alireza Karami Motlagh

Software sustainability is emerging as a primary concern, aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and promote a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. The sustainability or "greenness" of software is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Samarth Sikand , Rohit Mehra , Vibhu Saujanya Sharma , Vikrant Kaulgud , Sanjay Podder , Adam P. Burden

AI programming assistants have demonstrated a tendency to generate code containing basic security vulnerabilities. While developers are ultimately responsible for validating and reviewing such outputs, improving the inherent quality of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Catherine Xia , Manar H. Alalfi

In open-source projects, anyone can contribute, so it is important to have an active continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in addition to a protocol for reporting security concerns, especially in projects that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jessy Ayala , Joshua Garcia

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have been used to generate human-like content across multiple domains (e.g., sound, image, text, and programming). However, their reliability in terms of correctness and functionality in novel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Felipe Avencourt Soares , Muriel F. Franco , Eder J. Scheid , Lisandro Z. Granville

Strategized LaTeX removal and whitespace normalization approachThe widespread adoption of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT is transforming software development. Since generated source code is virtually…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tao Xiao , Youmei Fan , Fabio Calefato , Christoph Treude , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Hideaki Hata , Sebastian Baltes

Security vulnerabilities present in a code that has been written in diverse programming languages are among the most critical yet complicated aspects of source code to detect. Static analysis tools based on rule-based patterns usually do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hael Abdulhakim Ali Humran , Ferdi Sonmez

This paper proposes a pipeline for quantitatively evaluating interactive LLMs such as ChatGPT using publicly available dataset. We carry out an extensive technical evaluation of ChatGPT using Big-Vul covering five different common software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Xin Yin

"Vibe coding," in which developers delegate code generation to AI assistants and accept the output with little manual review, has gained rapid adoption in production settings. On March 31, 2026, Anthropic's Claude Code CLI shipped a 59.8 MB…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ying Xie

With the rapid development of AI technologies, thousands of AI papers are being published each year. Many of these papers have released sample code to facilitate follow-up researchers. This paper presents an explorative study of over 1700…

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