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Bug Localization is the process of locating potential error-prone files or methods from a given bug report and source code. There is extensive research on bug localization in the literature that focuses on applying information retrieval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sandeep Muvva , A Eashaan Rao , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Anomalies or failures in large computer systems, such as the cloud, have an impact on a large number of users that communicate, compute, and store information. Therefore, timely and accurate anomaly detection is necessary for reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Harold Ott , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao

[Background/Context] The continuous inflow of bug reports is a considerable challenge in large development projects. Inspired by contemporary work on mining software repositories, we designed a prototype bug assignment solution based on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Markus Borg , Leif Jonsson , Emelie Engström , Béla Bartalos , Attila Szabo

Bug severity prediction is important in software maintenance, because it helps the development teams to prioritize bugs that have a significant impact on the operation, stability and security of the system. In large software projects bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nafisha Tamanna Nice

The detection and localization of quality-related problems in industrially mass-produced products has historically relied on manual inspection, which is costly and error-prone. Machine learning has the potential to replace manual handling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sebastian Hönel , Jonas Nordqvist

This study reports the results of applying the cross-lingual bug localization approach proposed by Xia et al. to industrial software projects. To realize cross-lingual bug localization, we applied machine translation to non-English…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shinpei Hayashi , Takashi Kobayashi , Tadahisa Kato

Software bugs are prevalent in modern software systems and notoriously hard to debug manually. Therefore, a large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging, including both automated fault localization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yiling Lou , Ali Ghanbari , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang

Security vulnerabilities present in a code that has been written in diverse programming languages are among the most critical yet complicated aspects of source code to detect. Static analysis tools based on rule-based patterns usually do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hael Abdulhakim Ali Humran , Ferdi Sonmez

Software bugs pose a significant challenge during development and maintenance, and practitioners spend nearly 50% of their time dealing with bugs. Many existing techniques adopt Information Retrieval (IR) to localize a reported bug using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Due to its probabilistic nature, fault prognostics is a prime example of a use case for deep learning utilizing big data. However, the low availability of such data sets combined with the high effort of fitting, parameterizing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Benjamin Maschler

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars annually and claim ~50\% of the programming time from software developers. Locating these bugs is crucial for their resolution but challenging. It is even more challenging in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B. Shah , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Bug reports are common artefacts in software development. They serve as the main channel for users to communicate to developers information about the issues that they encounter when using released versions of software programs. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arthur D. Sawadogo , Quentin Guimard , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Naouel Moha

Information Retrieval-based Fault Localization (IRFL) techniques aim to identify source files containing the root causes of reported failures. While existing techniques excel in ranking source files, challenges persist in bug report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shuai Shao , Tingting Yu

Despite achieving impressive results on standard benchmarks, large foundational models still struggle against code-switching test cases. When data scarcity cannot be used as the usual justification for poor performance, the reason may lie…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Enes Yavuz Ugan , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

We explore the application of Information Retrieval (IR) based bug localization methods at a large industrial setting, Facebook. Facebook's code base evolves rapidly, with thousands of code changes being committed to a monolithic repository…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Vijayaraghavan Murali , Lee Gross , Rebecca Qian , Satish Chandra

Context: Given a bug report and source code of the project, bug localization can help developers to focus on fixing probable buggy files rather than searching the entire source code repository. While existing research uses information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Shubham Sangle , Sandeep Muvva , Sridhar Chimalakonda , Karthikeyan Ponnalagu , Vijendran Gopalan Venkoparao

Traditional bug-tracking systems rely heavily on manual reporting, reproduction, classification, and resolution, involving multiple stakeholders such as end users, customer support, developers, and testers. This division of responsibilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Utku Boran Torun , Mehmet Taha Demircan , Mahmut Furkan Gön , Eray Tüzün

Software testing helps developers to identify bugs. However, awareness of bugs is only the first step. Finding and correcting the faulty program components is equally hard and essential for high-quality software. Fault localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Hannes Thaller , Lukas Linsbauer , Alexander Egyed , Stefan Fischer

Artificial Intelligence has gained a lot of traction in the recent years, with machine learning notably starting to see more applications across a varied range of fields. One specific machine learning application that is of interest to us…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Teodor Rares Begu

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