Large language models for software engineering: A systematic literature review

X Hou, Y Zhao, Y Liu, Z Yang, K Wang, L Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted numerous domains, including
Software Engineering (SE). Many recent publications have explored LLMs applied to …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of GPT-3 family large language models including ChatGPT and GPT-4

KS Kalyan - Natural Language Processing Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Large language models (LLMs) are a special class of pretrained language models (PLMs)
obtained by scaling model size, pretraining corpus and computation. LLMs, because of their …

Large language models for software engineering: Survey and open problems

A Fan, B Gokkaya, M Harman… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a survey of the emerging area of Large Language Models (LLMs) for
Software Engineering (SE). It also sets out open research challenges for the application of …

Software testing with large language models: Survey, landscape, and vision

J Wang, Y Huang, C Chen, Z Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a breakthrough
technology in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with the ability to …

Is ChatGPT the ultimate programming assistant--how far is it?

H Tian, W Lu, TO Li, X Tang, SC Cheung… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recently, the ChatGPT LLM has received great attention: it can be used as a bot for
discussing source code, prompting it to suggest changes, provide descriptions or even …

A survey of large language models for code: Evolution, benchmarking, and future trends

Z Zheng, K Ning, Y Wang, J Zhang, D Zheng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
General large language models (LLMs), represented by ChatGPT, have demonstrated
significant potential in tasks such as code generation in software engineering. This has led …

Towards an understanding of large language models in software engineering tasks

Z Zheng, K Ning, Q Zhong, J Chen, W Chen… - Empirical Software …, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn widespread attention and research
due to their astounding performance in text generation and reasoning tasks. Derivative …

When chatgpt meets smart contract vulnerability detection: How far are we?

C Chen, J Su, J Chen, Y Wang, T Bi, J Yu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the development of blockchain technology, smart contracts have become an important
component of blockchain applications. Despite their crucial role, the development of smart …

Code-aware prompting: A study of coverage-guided test generation in regression setting using llm

G Ryan, S Jain, M Shang, S Wang, X Ma… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Testing plays a pivotal role in ensuring software quality, yet conventional Search Based
Software Testing (SBST) methods often struggle with complex software units, achieving …

A survey on large language models for software engineering

Q Zhang, C Fang, Y **e, Y Zhang, Y Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Software Engineering (SE) is the systematic design, development, maintenance, and
management of software applications underpinning the digital infrastructure of our modern …