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Mobile application development is a fast-paced process where maintaining high-quality user experiences is crucial. Bug reproduction, a key aspect of maintaining app quality, often faces significant challenges. Specifically, when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hongrong Yin , Jinhong Huang , Yao Li , Yunwei Dong , Tao Zhang

Large language model (LLM)-driven automated program repair (APR) has advanced rapidly, but most methods remain code-centric: they directly rewrite source code and thereby risk hallucinated, behaviorally inconsistent fixes. This limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Taohong Zhu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Youcheng Sun

Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Miltiadis Allamanis , Henry Jackson-Flux , Marc Brockschmidt

Bug report management is a costly software maintenance process comprised of several challenging tasks. Given the UI-driven nature of mobile apps, bugs typically manifest through the UI, hence the identification of buggy UI screens and UI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Antu Saha , Yang Song , Junayed Mahmud , Ying Zhou , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro

Three-dimensional reconstruction of events recorded on images has been a common challenge between computer vision and computer graphics for a long time. Estimating the real position of objects and surfaces using vision as an input is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos , João Madeiras Pereira , José Antonio Gaspar

Android User Interface (UI) testing is a critical research area due to the ubiquity of apps and the challenges faced by developers. Record and replay (R&R) tools facilitate manual and automated UI testing by recording UI actions to execute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihe Song , S M Hasan Mansur , Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Yumna Fatima , Wei Yang , Kevin Moran , Wing Lam

There is a growing demand for mobile user interface (UI) automation, driven by its broad applications across industries. With the advent of visual language models (VLMs), GUI automation has progressed from generating text-based instructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Neeraj Anand , Rishabh Jain , Sohan Patnaik , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Mausoom Sarkar

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled powerful semantic and multimodal reasoning capabilities, creating new opportunities to enhance sample efficiency, high-level planning, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Elad Sharony , Tom Jurgenson , Orr Krupnik , Dotan Di Castro , Shie Mannor

Bugs are notoriously challenging: they slow down software users and result in time-consuming investigations for developers. These challenges are exacerbated when bugs must be reported in natural language by users. Indeed, we lack reliable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Laura Plein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for Automated Program Repair (APR), yet most existing approaches remain unimodal and fail to leverage the rich diagnostic signals contained in visual artifacts such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xiaoxuan Tang , Jincheng Wang , Liwei Luo , Jingxuan Xu , Sheng Zhou , Dajun Chen , Wei Jiang , Yong Li

In issue-tracking systems, incorporating screenshots significantly enhances the clarity of bug reports, facilitating more efficient communication and expediting issue resolution. However, determining when and what type of visual content to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xuchen Tan , Deenu Yadav , Faiz Ahmed , Maleknaz Nayebi

One of the most important tasks related to managing bug reports is localizing the fault so that a fix can be applied. As such, prior work has aimed to automate this task of bug localization by formulating it as an information retrieval…

Smartphones and tablets have established themselves as mainstays in the modern computing landscape. It is conceivable that in the near future such devices may supplant laptops and desktops, becoming many users primary means of carrying out…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran

Collecting traces from software running in the field is both useful and challenging. Traces may indeed help revealing unexpected usage scenarios, detecting and reproducing failures, and building behavioral models that reflect how the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Oscar Cornejo , Daniela Briola , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xueqing Wu , Zongyu Lin , Songyan Zhao , Te-Lin Wu , Pan Lu , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Software development teams generally welcome any effort to expose bugs in their code base. In this work, we build on the hypothesis that mobile apps from the same category (e.g., two web browser apps) may be affected by similar bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xunzhu Tang , Haoye Tian , Pingfan Kong , Kui Liu , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyande

In this work, we propose the use of "aligned visual captions" as a mechanism for integrating information contained within videos into retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based chat assistant systems. These captions are able to describe the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Kevin Dela Rosa

The HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) <canvas> is useful for creating visual-centric web applications. However, unlike traditional web applications, HTML5 <canvas> applications render objects onto the <canvas> bitmap without representing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Finlay Macklon , Cor-Paul Bezemer

The rapid pace of large-scale software development places increasing demands on traditional testing methodologies, often leading to bottlenecks in efficiency, accuracy, and coverage. We propose a novel perspective on software testing by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yuchen Wang , Shangxin Guo , Chee Wei Tan

Vision-Language models (VLMs) have excelled in the image-domain -- especially in zero-shot settings -- thanks to the availability of vast pretraining data (i.e., paired image-text samples). However for videos, such paired data is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Anurag Arnab , Arsha Nagrani , Michael S. Ryoo