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Software testing is a core discipline in software engineering where a large array of research results has been produced, notably in the area of automatic test generation. Because existing approaches produce test cases that either can be…

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Unit testing is essential for software quality assurance, yet writing and maintaining tests remains time-consuming and error-prone. To address this challenge, researchers have proposed various techniques for automating unit test generation,…

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The increasing complexity of modern software systems has made understanding their behavior increasingly challenging, driving the need for explainability to improve transparency and user trust. Traditional documentation is often outdated or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Daniel Pöttgen , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Max Unterbusch , Andreas Vogelsang

Automated unit test generation is essential for robust software development, yet existing approaches struggle to generalize across multiple programming languages and operate within real-time development. While Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gwihwan Go , Quan Zhang , Chijin Zhou , Zhao Wei , Yu Jiang

While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is increasingly adopted to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in software artifacts, the optimal configuration of its components remains an open question for software engineering (SE) tasks. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qiang Ke , Yanjie Zhao , Hongjin Leng , Shengming Zhao , Haoyu Wang

[Context:] Model-based testing is an instrument for automated generation of test cases. It requires identifying requirements in documents, understanding them syntactically and semantically, and then translating them into a test model. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Jannik Fischbach , Maximilian Junker , Andreas Vogelsang , Dietmar Freudenstein

There is an increasing amount of research and commercial tools for automated test case generation using Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper critically examines whether recent LLM-based test generation tools, such as Codium CoverAgent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Noble Saji Mathews , Meiyappan Nagappan

Detecting anomalies in business processes is crucial for ensuring operational success. While many existing methods rely on statistical frequency to detect anomalies, it's important to note that infrequent behavior doesn't necessarily imply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wei Guan , Jian Cao , Jianqi Gao , Haiyan Zhao , Shiyou Qian

Effective unit tests can help guard and improve software quality but require a substantial amount of time and effort to write and maintain. A unit test consists of a test prefix and a test oracle. Synthesizing test oracles, especially…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhongxin Liu , Kui Liu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Large Language Models have significantly advanced the field of code generation, demonstrating the ability to produce functionally correct code snippets. However, advancements in generative AI for code overlook foundational Software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mootez Saad , José Antonio Hernández López , Boqi Chen , Neil Ernst , Dániel Varró , Tushar Sharma

Existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems face challenges in enterprise settings due to limited retrieval scope and data security risks. When relevant internal documents are unavailable, the system struggles to generate accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Grace Byun , Shinsun Lee , Nayoung Choi , Jinho D. Choi

Testing is a relevant activity for the development life-cycle of Safety Critical Embedded systems. In particular, much effort is spent for analysis and classification of test logs from SCADA subsystems, especially when failures occur. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Alessio Venticinque , Nicola Mazzocca , Salvatore Venticinque , Massimo Ficco

Anomaly Detection (AD) focuses on detecting samples that differ from the standard pattern, making it a vital tool in process control. Logical anomalies may appear visually normal yet violate predefined constraints on object presence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yejin Kwon , Daeun Moon , Youngje Oh , Hyunsoo Yoon

Researchers and practitioners have designed and implemented various automated test case generators to support effective software testing. Such generators exist for various languages (e.g., Java, C#, or Python) and for various platforms…

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence have sparked interest in industrial agents capable of supporting analysts in regulated sectors, such as finance and healthcare, within tabular data workflows. A key capability for such systems…

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Fault localization identifies program locations responsible for observed failures. Existing techniques rank suspicious code using syntactic spectra--signals derived from execution structure such as statement coverage, control-flow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhaorui Yang , Haichao Zhu , Qian Zhang , Rajiv Gupta , Ashish Kundu

Semantic Knowledge Graphs (SKG) face challenges with scalability, flexibility, contextual understanding, and handling unstructured or ambiguous information. However, they offer formal and structured knowledge enabling highly interpretable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Aldo Gangemi , Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been suggested for use in automated vulnerability repair, but benchmarks showing they can consistently identify security-related bugs are lacking. We thus develop SecLLMHolmes, a fully automated evaluation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Saad Ullah , Mingji Han , Saurabh Pujar , Hammond Pearce , Ayse Coskun , Gianluca Stringhini

Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven substantial progress in artificial intelligence in recent years, exhibiting impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, including mathematical problem-solving. Inspired by the success of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xueliang Zhao , Xinting Huang , Wei Bi , Lingpeng Kong

FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) logic synthesis tools are key components in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) toolchain. They convert hardware designs written in description languages such as Verilog into gate-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yi Zhang , He Jiang , Xiaochen Li , Shikai Guo , Peiyu Zou , Zun Wang