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Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using software. However, it is difficult for non-technical users to write clear descriptions about the bug occurrence.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

As part of the process of resolving issues submitted by users via bug reports, Android developers attempt to reproduce and observe the failures described by the bug report. Due to the low-quality of bug reports and the complexity of modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhaoxu Zhang , Robert Winn , Yu Zhao , Tingting Yu , William G. J. Halfond

Video-based bug reports are increasingly being used to document bugs for programs centered around a graphical user interface (GUI). However, developing automated techniques to manage video-based reports is challenging as it requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yanfu Yan , Nathan Cooper , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

In software development, bug report reproduction is a challenging task. This paper introduces ReBL, a novel feedback-driven approach that leverages GPT-4, a large-scale language model (LLM), to automatically reproduce Android bug reports.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Dingbang Wang , Yu Zhao , Sidong Feng , Zhaoxu Zhang , William G. J. Halfond , Chunyang Chen , Xiaoxia Sun , Jiangfan Shi , Tingting Yu

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using the software. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating bug replay to expedite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

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

Vision models with high overall accuracy often exhibit systematic errors in specific scenarios, posing potential serious safety concerns. Diagnosing bugs of vision models is gaining increased attention, however traditional diagnostic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chaoquan Jiang , Jinqiang Wang , Rui Hu , Jitao Sang

End-to-end reinforcement learning on images showed significant progress in the recent years. Data-based approach leverage data augmentation and domain randomization while representation learning methods use auxiliary losses to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Tom Dupuis , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Quoc-Cuong Pham , David Filliat

Bug reports are essential for developers to confirm software problems, investigate their causes, and validate fixes. Unfortunately, reports often miss important information or are written unclearly, which can cause delays, increased issue…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junayed Mahmud , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Andrian Marcus

Modern game studios deliver new builds and patches at a rapid pace, generating thousands of bug reports, many of which embed gameplay videos. To verify and triage these bug reports, developers must watch the submitted videos. This manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wentao Lu , Alexander Senchenko , Abram Hindle , Cor-Paul Bezemer

In the development and maintenance of Android apps, the quick and accurate reproduction of user-reported bugs is crucial to ensure application quality and improve user satisfaction. However, this process is often time-consuming and complex.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

One of the primary mechanisms by which developers receive feedback about in-field failures of software from users is through bug reports. Unfortunately, the quality of manually written bug reports can vary widely due to the effort required…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Mattia Fazzini , Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal Cardenas , Tyler Wendland , Alessandro Orso , Denys Poshyvanyk

Bugs that surface in mobile applications can be difficult to reproduce and fix due to several confounding factors including the highly GUI-driven nature of mobile apps, varying contextual states, differing platform versions and device…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran , Richard Bonett , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Brendan Otten , Daniel Park , Denys Poshyvanyk

Automated bug reproduction is a challenging task, with existing tools typically relying on textual steps-to-reproduce, videos, or crash logs in bug reports as input. However, images provided in bug reports have been overlooked. To address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Dingbang Wang , Zhaoxu Zhang , Sidong Feng , William G. J. Halfond , Tingting Yu

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to capture and include a wealth of information, making them a popular mechanism for users to inform developers of the problems encountered in the bug reports. However, watching the bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Sidong Feng , Mulong Xie , Yinxing Xue , Chunyang Chen

Content-based Video Retrieval (CBVR) is used on media-sharing platforms for applications such as video recommendation and filtering. To manage databases that scale to billions of videos, video-level approaches that use fixed-size embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Kennard Ng , Ser-Nam Lim , Gim Hee Lee

Block-based programming environments such as Scratch are increasingly popular in programming education, in particular for young learners. While the use of blocks helps prevent syntax errors, semantic bugs remain common and difficult to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuan Si , Daming Li , Hanyuan Shi , Jialu Zhang

Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani
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