Agentless: Demystifying llm-based software engineering agents

CS ** study of bug reproduction and localization
D Wang, M Galster, M Morales-Trujillo - Information and Software …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context: Identifying the root cause of a software bug and fixing it is challenging. One reason
for this is that many bugs are not reproducible during bug fixing. Objective: We aim to …

Boosting coverage-based fault localization via graph-based representation learning

Y Lou, Q Zhu, J Dong, X Li, Z Sun, D Hao… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Coverage-based fault localization has been extensively studied in the literature due to its
effectiveness and lightweightness for real-world systems. However, existing techniques …

Perceptions, expectations, and challenges in defect prediction

Z Wan, X **a, AE Hassan, D Lo, J Yin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Defect prediction has been an active research area for over four decades. Despite
numerous studies on defect prediction, the potential value of defect prediction in practice …

A learning-to-rank based fault localization approach using likely invariants

TD B. Le, D Lo, C Le Goues, L Grunske - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Debugging is a costly process that consumes much of developer time and energy. To help
reduce debugging effort, many studies have proposed various fault localization approaches …

Locus: Locating bugs from software changes

M Wen, R Wu, SC Cheung - Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

iFixR: Bug report driven program repair

A Koyuncu, K Liu, TF Bissyandé, D Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting
feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance …

Fast changeset-based bug localization with BERT

A Ciborowska, K Damevski - … of the 44th International Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Automatically localizing software bugs to the changesets that induced them has the potential
to improve software developer efficiency and to positively affect software quality. To facilitate …