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Large Language Models (LLMs) often fail to generate correct code on the first attempt, which requires using generated unit tests as verifiers to validate the solutions. Despite the success of recent verification methods, they remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sicheng Zhu , Jiajun Wang , Jiawei Ai , Xin Li

LLM-based software engineering increasingly depends on executable, context-rich bug artifacts: paired correct and buggy code, methods under test (MUTs), documentation, and metadata. These artifacts support the training and evaluation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tasfia Tasnim , Soneya Binta Hossain

Students benefit from math problems contextualized to their interests. Large language models (LLMs) offer promise for efficient personalization at scale. However, LLM-generated personalized problems may often have problems such as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fareya Ikram , Nischal Ashok Kumar , Junyang Lu , Hunter McNichols , Candace Walkington , Neil Heffernan , Andrew S. Lan

Unit testing in High-Performance Computing (HPC) is critical but challenged by parallelism, complex algorithms, and diverse hardware. Traditional methods often fail to address non-deterministic behavior and synchronization issues in HPC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rabimba Karanjai , Lei Xu , Weidong Shi

Code LLMs often portray inconsistent program behaviors. Developers typically employ benchmarks to assess Code LLMs, but most benchmarks are hand-crafted, static and do not target consistency property. In this work, we pose the scientific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chua Jin Chou , Khant That Lwin , Ezekiel Soremekun

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents and function calling have enabled autonomous, feedback-driven systems to solve problems across various digital domains. To better understand the unique limitations of LM agents, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dhruv Gautam , Spandan Garg , Jinu Jang , Neel Sundaresan , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Mutation testing is an established fault-based testing technique. It operates by seeding faults into the programs under test and asking developers to write tests that reveal these faults. These tests have the potential to reveal a large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Ahmed Khanfir , Renzo Degiovanni , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Mutation testing is a well-established technique for assessing a test suite's quality by injecting artificial faults into production code. In recent years, mutation testing has been extended to machine learning (ML) systems, and deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Annibale Panichella , Cynthia C. S. Liem

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software applications. Downstream application developers often access LLMs through APIs provided as a service. However, LLM APIs are often updated silently and scheduled to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Wanqin Ma , Chenyang Yang , Christian Kästner

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

Mutation testing is the state-of-the-art technique for assessing the fault detection capacity of a test suite. Unfortunately, a full mutation analysis is often prohibitively expensive. The CppCheck project for instance, demands a build time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sten Vercammen , Serge Demeyer , Markus Borg , Niklas Pettersson , Görel Hedin

Understanding urban environment change is essential for sustainable development. However, current approaches, particularly remote sensing change detection, often rely on rigid, single-modal analysis. To overcome these limitations, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zixuan Xiao , Jun Ma , Siwei Zhang

Traditional approaches to test case generation often involve manual effort and incur significant computational overhead. Additionally, these approaches are not scalable, and hence, unsuitable for complex software systems. Recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kushal Jasti , Tejamani Prashanth Sahu , Rishitha Pentyala , Muvvala Mohit , Vivek Yelleti

Multi-agent LLM frameworks are widely used to accelerate the development of agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs). These frameworks impose distinct architectural structures that govern how agents interact, store information,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Abdelghny Orogat , Ana Rostam , Essam Mansour

LLM-based mutation testing is a promising testing technology, but existing approaches typically rely on a fixed set of mutations as few-shot examples or none at all. This can result in generic low-quality mutations, missed context-specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bo Wang , Ming Deng , Mingda Chen , Chengran Yang , Youfang Lin , Mark Harman , Mike Papadakis , Jie M. Zhang

We introduce a novel large language model (LLM)-driven agent framework, which iteratively refines queries and filters contextual evidence by leveraging dynamically evolving knowledge. A defining feature of the system is its decoupling of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Seyoung Song

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated unit test generation. However, it remains unclear whether these tests reflect genuine reasoning about program behavior or simply reproduce superficial patterns learned during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sabaat Haroon , Mohammad Taha Khan , Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Mutation testing was proposed to identify weaknesses in test suites by repeatedly generating artificially faulty versions of the software (mutants) and determining if the test suite is sufficient to detect them (kill them). When the tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Hang Du , Vijay Krishna Palepu , James A. Jones

This paper presents a benchmark self-evolving framework to dynamically evaluate rapidly advancing Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming for a more accurate assessment of their capabilities and limitations. We utilize a multi-agent system to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Siyuan Wang , Zhuohan Long , Zhihao Fan , Zhongyu Wei , Xuanjing Huang

Automated failure diagnosis requires correlating browser-visible symptoms with backend observability signals, yet existing benchmarks do not evaluate this cross-modal reasoning task. Constructing one is non-trivial: multi-modal failure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haoming Meng