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We present a novel framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) into the Git bisect process for semantic fault localization. Traditional bisect assumes deterministic predicates and binary failure states assumptions often violated…

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This study investigates vulnerabilities in dependencies of sampled open-source software (OSS) projects, the relationship between these and overall project security, and how developers' behaviors and practices influence their mitigation.…

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Modern software relies heavily on third-party software libraries to streamline the development process. The act of switching one library for a similar counterpart, called library migration, naturally occurs as libraries become outdated or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Matthias Kebede , May Mahmoud , Mohayeminul Islam , Sarah Nadi

Solidity, the dominant smart contract language for Ethereum, has rapidly evolved with frequent version updates to enhance security, functionality, and developer experience. However, these continual changes introduce significant challenges,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Likai Ye , Mengliang Li , Dehai Zhao , Jiamou Sun , Xiaoxue Ren

Code completion is a key feature of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), aimed at predicting the next tokens a developer is likely to write, helping them write code faster and with less effort. Modern code completion approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Matteo Ciniselli , Alberto Martin-Lopez , Gabriele Bavota

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely studied in the code translation field on the method, class, and even repository levels. However, most of these benchmarks are limited in terms of Third-Party Library (TPL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Zhen Yang , Yifei Pei , Linhao Wu , Jiahui Dong , Xiapu Luo , Yan Xiao , Fei Liu , Yuxuan Zhang , Xiran Lyu , Xianhang Li , Xuanyu Zhu , Chengyi Wang

The large transformer-based language models demonstrate excellent performance in natural language processing. By considering the transferability of the knowledge gained by these models in one domain to other related domains, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chandra Thapa , Seung Ick Jang , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Seyit Camtepe , Josef Pieprzyk , Surya Nepal

Tracking vulnerabilities inherited from third-party open-source software is a well-known challenge, often addressed by tracing the threads of dependency information. However, vulnerabilities can also propagate through forking: a code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Romain Lefeuvre , Charly Reux , Stefano Zacchiroli , Olivier Barais , Benoit Combemale

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

Modern software heavily relies on the use of components. Those components are usually published in central repositories, and managed by build systems via dependencies. Due to issues around vulnerabilities, licenses and the propagation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jens Dietrich , Shawn Rasheed , Alexander Jordan , Tim White

The large-scale deployment of Solidity smart contracts on the Ethereum mainnet has increasingly attracted financially-motivated attackers in recent years. A few now-infamous attacks in Ethereum's history includes DAO attack in 2016 (50…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Md Tauseef Alam , Raju Halder , Abyayananda Maiti

Security updates create a short but important window in which defenders and attackers can compare vulnerable and patched software. Yet in many operational settings, the most accessible artifacts are binary packages rather than source…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Isaac David , Arthur Gervais

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing research and tools from both academia and industry mainly relied…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lyuye Zhang , Jiahui Wu , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaoyu Sun , Lida Zhao , Chong Wang , Yang Liu

Vulnerabilities in software libraries and reusable components cause major security challenges, particularly in dependency-heavy ecosystems such as Maven. This paper presents a large-scale analysis of vulnerabilities in the Maven ecosystem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Md Fazle Rabbi , Rajshakhar Paul , Arifa Islam Champa , Minhaz F. Zibran

Developers are increasingly using services such as Dependabot to automate dependency updates. However, recent research has shown that developers perceive such services as unreliable, as they heavily rely on test coverage to detect conflicts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Joseph Hejderup , Georgios Gousios

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are widely adopted in software engineering practice. In reality, the CI/CD pipeline execution is not yet reliably continuous because it is often interrupted by Docker build…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mingjie Li , Xiaoying Bai , Minghua Ma , Dan Pei

Enterprise environment often screens large-scale (millions of lines of code) codebases with static analysis tools to find bugs and vulnerabilities. Parfait is a static code analysis tool used in Oracle to find security vulnerabilities in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Ya Xiao , Yang Zhao , Nicholas Allen , Nathan Keynes , Danfeng , Yao , Cristina Cifuentes

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to resolve real-world GitHub issues. However, despite their potential, the specific failure modes of these models in complex repair tasks remain poorly understood. To characterize how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yanjie Jiang , Yian Huang , Guancheng Wang , Junjie Chen , Hui Liu , Lionel Briand

Software vulnerabilities are now reported at an unprecedented speed due to the recent development of automated vulnerability hunting tools. However, fixing vulnerabilities still mainly depends on programmers' manual efforts. Developers need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jianlei Chi , Yu Qu , Ting Liu , Qinghua Zheng , Heng Yin

Though many deep learning (DL)-based vulnerability detection approaches have been proposed and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in the generalization as well as the practical usage. More precisely,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Chao Ni , Xin Yin , Kaiwen Yang , Dehai Zhao , Zhenchang Xing , Xin Xia