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Property-based testing (PBT) is a technique for validating code against an executable specification by automatically generating test-data. We present a proof-theoretical reconstruction of this style of testing for relational specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dale Miller , Alberto Momigliano

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in automated code generation. Yet, LLM-generated code may contain errors in API usage, class, data structure, or missing project-specific information. As much of this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhangqian Bi , Yao Wan , Zheng Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Batu Guan , Fangxin Lu , Zili Zhang , Yulei Sui , Hai Jin , Xuanhua Shi

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for automating software development by translating requirements into code. However, even advanced prompting workflows like progressive prompting often leave some requirements unmet. Although methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jianru Shen , Zedong Peng , Lucy Owen

Functional correctness is critical for ensuring the reliability and security of network protocol implementations. Functional bugs, instances where implementations diverge from behaviors specified in RFC documents, can lead to severe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mingwei Zheng , Chengpeng Wang , Xuwei Liu , Jinyao Guo , Shiwei Feng , Xiangyu Zhang

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to help developers automatically patch software bugs. However, current state-of-the-art traditional and learning-based APR techniques face the problem of limited patch variety, failing to fix complicated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yuxiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Among the biggest challenges in property-based testing (PBT) is the constrained random generation problem: given a predicate on program values, randomly sample from the set of all values satisfying that predicate, and only those values.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Harrison Goldstein , Hila Peleg , Cassia Torczon , Daniel Sainati , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Benjamin C. Pierce

The functionality of many mobile applications is dependent on various contextual, external factors. Depending on unforeseen scenarios, mobile apps can even malfunction or crash. In this paper, we have introduced MobiCoMonkey - automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Amit Seal Ami , Md. Mehedi Hasan , Md. Rayhanur Rahman , Kazi Sakib

By integrating tools from external APIs, Large Language Models (LLMs) have expanded their promising capabilities in a diverse spectrum of complex real-world tasks. However, testing, evaluation, and analysis of LLM tool use remain in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuheng Huang , Jiayang Song , Da Song , Zhenlan Ji , Wenhan Wang , Shuai Wang , Lei Ma

Despite the critical threat posed by software security vulnerabilities, reports are often incomplete, lacking the proof-of-vulnerability (PoV) tests needed to validate fixes and prevent regressions. These tests are crucial not only for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Vikram Nitin , Baishakhi Ray , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Bug tracking systems play a crucial role in software maintenance, yet developers frequently struggle with low-quality user-submitted reports that omit essential details such as Steps to Reproduce (S2R), Observed Behavior (OB), and Expected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emre Furkan Akyol , Mehmet Dedeler , Eray Tüzün

Modern software systems rely heavily on Web APIs, yet creating meaningful and executable test scripts remains a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In this paper, we present APITestGenie, a novel tool that leverages Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 André Pereira , Bruno Lima , João Pascoal Faria

The advancement of LLM agents with tool-use capabilities requires diverse and complex training corpora. Existing data generation methods, which predominantly follow a paradigm of random sampling and shallow generation, often yield simple…

Today's IoT systems include event-driven smart applications (apps) that interact with sensors and actuators. A problem specific to IoT systems is that buggy apps, unforeseen bad app interactions, or device/communication failures, can cause…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dang Tu Nguyen , Chengyu Song , Zhiyun Qian , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Edward J. M. Colbert , Patrick McDaniel

Security vulnerabilities in software packages are a significant concern for developers and users alike. Patching these vulnerabilities in a timely manner is crucial to restoring the integrity and security of software systems. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Deniz Simsek , Aryaz Eghbali , Michael Pradel

LLM-based agents have demonstrated great potential in generating and managing code within complex codebases. In this paper, we introduce WebGen-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to measure an LLM-based agent's ability to create multi-file…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zimu Lu , Yunqiao Yang , Houxing Ren , Haotian Hou , Han Xiao , Ke Wang , Weikang Shi , Aojun Zhou , Mingjie Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Modern generative models achieve excellent quality in a variety of tasks including image or text generation and chemical molecule modeling. However, existing methods often lack the essential ability to generate examples with requested…

Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over extended periods with minimal human oversight. Such settings…

The proliferation of mobile apps and reduced time in mobile app releases mandates the need for faster and efficient testing of mobile apps, their GUI and functional capabilities. Though, there are wide variety of open source tools and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Poornima Gopi

Many accessibility features available on mobile platforms require applications (apps) to provide complete and accurate metadata describing user interface (UI) components. Unfortunately, many apps do not provide sufficient metadata for…

Millions of mobile apps have been available through various app markets. Although most app markets have enforced a number of automated or even manual mechanisms to vet each app before it is released to the market, thousands of low-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yangyu Hu , Haoyu Wang , Tiantong Ji , Xusheng Xiao , Xiapu Luo , Peng Gao , Yao Guo