SPOLRE: Semantic Preserving Object Layout Reconstruction for Image Captioning System Testing

Authors: Yi Liu, Guanyu Wang, Xinyi Zheng, Gelei Deng, Kailong Wang, Yang Liu, Haoyu Wang

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-25

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18512

Quantum Neural Network Classifier for Cancer Registry System Testing: A Feasibility Study

Authors: Xinyi Wang, Shaukat Ali, Paolo Arcaini, Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan, Jan F. Nygård

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-24

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04740

Tracing Optimization for Performance Modeling and Regression Detection

Authors: Kaveh Shahedi, Heng Li, Maxime Lamothe, Foutse Khomh

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-43

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), Performance (cs.PF), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Performance, Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Software System Performance and Reliability, Information Systems

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17548

Learning Program Behavioral Models from Synthesized Input–Output Pairs

Authors: Tural Mammadov, Dietrich Klakow, Alexander Koller, Andreas Zeller

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-45

Subject Terms: FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, D.2.5, I.2.6, Software Testing, D.2.7, F.1.1, F.4.3, Mocking, 68T07 (Primary), 68N30 (Secondary), 68Q42, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Software Engineering (cs.SE), Computer Science - Software Engineering, Deep Learning, Software Reverse Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08597

AdaptiveLog: An Adaptive Log Analysis Framework with the Collaboration of Large and Small Language Model

Authors: Lipeng Ma, Weidong Yang, Yixuan Li, Ben Fei, Mingjie Zhou, Shuhao Li, Sihang Jiang, Bo Xu, Yanghua Xiao

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-42

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Language (cs.CL)

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11031

Bridging Bug Localization and Issue Fixing: A Hierarchical Localization Framework Leveraging Large Language Models

Authors: Jianming Chang, Xin Zhou 0014, Lulu Wang 0001, David Lo 0001, Bixin Li

Source: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 52:1531-1548

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15292

Towards Refining Developer Questions Using LLM-Based Named Entity Recognition for Developer Chatroom Conversations

Authors: Pouya Fathollahzadeh, Mariam El Mezouar, Hao Li 0094, Ying Zou 0001, Ahmed E. Hassan

Source: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 52:1391-1406

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Machine Learning (cs.LG)

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00673

Software Testing in the Quantum World

Authors: Rui Abreu 0001, Shaukat Ali 0001, Paolo Arcaini, José Campos 0001, Michael Felderer, Claude Gravel, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Stefan Klikovits, Andriy V. Miranskyy, Anila Mjeda, Mohammad Reza Mousavi 0001, Masaomi Yamaguchi, Lei Zhang 0078, Jianjun Zhao 0001

Source: Abreu, R, Ali, S, Arcaini, P, Campos, J, Felderer, M, Gravel, C, Ishikawa, F, Klikovits, S, Miranskyy, A, Mjeda, A, Mousavi, M, Yamaguchi, M, Zhang, L & Zhao, J 2026, 'Software Testing in the Quantum World', Computer, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 135-138. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2026.3655854

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, UMBC Emerging Software Technologies Lab, Software Engineering

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Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13996
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https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2026.3655854
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/files/363254355/mousavi-computer-2026.pdf
https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105034943159

Towards Secure Program Partitioning for Smart Contracts With LLM’s In-Context Learning

Authors: Ye Liu 0012, Yuqing Niu, Chengyan Ma 0001, Ruidong Han, Wei Ma 0014, Yi Li 0008, Debin Gao, David Lo 0001

Source: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 52:1549-1567

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14215

Prompting Frameworks for Large Language Models: A Survey

Authors: Xiaoxia Liu, Jingyi Wang, Xiaohan Yuan, Jun Sun, Guoliang Dong, Peng Di, Wenhai Wang, Dongxia Wang

Source: ACM Computing Surveys. 58:1-38

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12785

A Quantitative Framework for Evaluating Architectural Patterns in ML Systems

Authors: Simeon Emanuilov, Aleksandar Dimov

Source: International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 36:1059-1088

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11543

Analysis of Diffusion Properties in Generalized Feistel Ciphers Under Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis

Authors: Ozdemir, Betul Askin, Rijmen, Vincent

Source: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology; Vol. 2026 No. 1; 376-409

Subject Terms: Technology, Generic Attack, Science & Technology, CAST-256, Computer Science, Theory & Methods, Generalized Feistel Ciphers, Computer Science, GMIMC, GMiMC, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Diffusion Property, Multidimensional Linear Cryptanalysis

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Access URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/2333
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https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/20.500.12942/784980
https://doi.org/10.46586/tosc.v2026.i1.376-409

LLM-Based Misconfiguration Detection for AWS Serverless Computing

Authors: Jinfeng Wen, Zhenpeng Chen, Zixi Zhu, Federica Sarro, Yi Liu, Haodi Ping, Shangguang Wang

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-28

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00642

SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems

Authors: Huiwen Yang, Yu Zhou, Taolue Chen

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-32

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Robotics, Robotics (cs.RO)

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13802

On the Utility of Domain Modeling Assistance with Large Language Models

Authors: Meriem Ben Chaaben, Lola Burgueño, Istvan David, Houari Sahraoui

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-38

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12577

Enhancing Differential Testing with LLMs for Testing Deep Learning Libraries

Authors: Meiziniu Li, Dongze Li, Jianmeng Liu, Jialun Cao, Yongqiang Tian, Shing-Chi Cheung

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-39

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), I.2.5, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, D.2.5

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07944

LLM-Cure: LLM-Based Competitor User Review Analysis for Feature Enhancement

Authors: Maram Assi, Safwat Hassan, Ying Zou

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-25

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval (cs.IR), Computer Science - Information Retrieval

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15724

NLPerturbator: Studying the Robustness of Code LLMs to Natural Language Variations

Authors: Junkai Chen, Zhenhao Li, Xing Hu, Xin Xia

Source: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35:1-20

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computation and Language (cs.CL)

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19783

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Service Discovery: Chunking Strategies and Benchmarking

Authors: Robin D. Pesl, Jerin George Mathew, Massimo Mecella, Marco Aiello 0001

Source: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 19:1520-1534

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19310

Subgraph-Oriented Testing for Deep Learning Libraries

Authors: Xiaoyuan Xie, Yan Song, Songqiang Chen, Jinfu Chen 0002

Source: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 52:908-922

Subject Terms: Software Engineering (cs.SE), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Software Engineering

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06430