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Regression testing in software development checks if new software features affect existing ones. Regression testing is a key task in continuous development and integration, where software is built in small increments and new features are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alina Torbunova , Per Erik Strandberg , Ivan Porres

Static analysis is a growing application of software engineering, leading to a range of essential security tools, bug-finding tools, as well as software verification. Recent years show an increase of universal static analysis tools that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Avi Hayoun , Veselin Raychev , Jack Hair

Software reliability is a primary concern in the construction of software, and thus a fundamental component in the definition of software quality. Analyzing software reliability requires a specification of the intended behavior of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Facundo Molina , Pablo Ponzio , Nazareno Aguirre , Marcelo Frias

Repository-level issue resolution benchmarks have become a standard testbed for evaluating LLM-based agents, yet success is still predominantly measured by test pass rates. In practice, however, acceptable patches must also comply with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kai Yu , Zhenhao Zhou , Junhao Zeng , Ying Wang , Xueying Du , Zhiqiang Yuan , Junwei Liu , Ziyu Zhou , Yujia Wang , Chong Wang , Xin Peng

Competitive programming, due to its high reasoning difficulty and precise correctness feedback, has become a key task for both training and evaluating the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, while a large amount…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zihan Wang , Siyao Liu , Yang Sun , Hongyan Li , Kai Shen

Test bots are automated testing tools that autonomously and periodically run a set of test cases that check whether the system under test meets the requirements set forth by the customer. The automation decreases the amount of time a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linda Erlenhov , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Martin Chukaleski , Samer Daknache

Probabilistic programming is a powerful abstraction for statistical machine learning. Applying static analysis methods to probabilistic programs could serve to optimize the learning process, automatically verify properties of models, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ryan Bernstein

Automatic performance tuning, or auto-tuning, accelerates high-performance codes by exploring vast spaces of code variants. However, due to the large number of possible combinations and complex constraints, constructing these search spaces…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

In large programming classes, it takes a significant effort from teachers to evaluate exercises and provide detailed feedback. In systems programming, test cases are not sufficient to assess exercises, since concurrency and resource…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Roberto Natella

Combinatorial optimization problems are widely encountered in real-world applications. A critical research challenge lies in designing high-quality heuristic algorithms that efficiently approximate optimal solutions within a reasonable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shaofeng Zhang , Shengcai Liu , Ning Lu , Jiahao Wu , Ji Liu , Yew-Soon Ong , Ke Tang

In this work we introduce a novel approach, based on sampling, for finding assignments that are likely to be solutions to stochastic constraint satisfaction problems and constraint optimisation problems. Our approach reduces the size of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Roberto Rossi , Brahim Hnich , S. Armagan Tarim , Steven Prestwich

We introduce Bug-Injector, a system that automatically creates benchmarks for customized evaluation of static analysis tools. We share a benchmark generated using Bug-Injector and illustrate its efficacy by using it to evaluate the recall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Vineeth Kashyap , Jason Ruchti , Lucja Kot , Emma Turetsky , Rebecca Swords , Shih An Pan , Julien Henry , David Melski , Eric Schulte

Production LLM systems increasingly require machine-readable outputs: JSON objects, typed traces, regex-constrained fields, and tool-call schemas. This paper targets on-device and low-cost small language model (SLM) deployments, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jaideep Ray

In large-scale LLM pre-training systems with 100k+ GPUs, failures become the norm rather than the exception, and restart costs can dominate wall-clock training time. However, existing fault-tolerance mechanisms are largely unprepared for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jin Lee , Zhonghao Chen , Xuhang He , Robert Underwood , Bogdan Nicolae , Franck Cappello , Xiaoyi Lu , Sheng Di , Zheng Zhang

Resource-management tasks in modern operating and distributed systems continue to rely primarily on hand-designed heuristics for tasks such as scheduling, caching, or active queue management. Designing performant heuristics is an expensive,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rohit Dwivedula , Divyanshu Saxena , Sujay Yadalam , Daehyeok Kim , Aditya Akella

The execution behavior of a program often depends on external resources, such as program inputs or file contents, and so cannot be run in isolation. Nevertheless, software developers benefit from fast iteration loops where automated tools…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 David Bieber , Rishab Goel , Daniel Zheng , Hugo Larochelle , Daniel Tarlow

Task oriented language understanding in dialog systems is often modeled using intents (task of a query) and slots (parameters for that task). Intent detection and slot tagging are, in turn, modeled using sentence classification and word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta , Mrinal Mohit , Rushin Shah

Formal verification provides a rigorous and systematic approach to ensure the correctness and reliability of software systems. Yet, constructing specifications for the full proof relies on domain expertise and non-trivial manpower. In view…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Cheng Wen , Jialun Cao , Jie Su , Zhiwu Xu , Shengchao Qin , Mengda He , Haokun Li , Shing-Chi Cheung , Cong Tian

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tools are among the most widely used techniques in defensive cybersecurity, employed by commercial and non-commercial organizations to identify potential vulnerabilities in software. Despite their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jake Feiglin , Guy Dar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various domains but encounter substantial challenges in tackling optimization modeling tasks for Operations Research (OR), particularly when dealing with complex problem. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yang Wu , Yifan Zhang , Yurong Wu , Yuran Wang , Junkai Zhang , Jian Cheng