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The growth in the popularity of smart contracts has been accompanied by a rise in security attacks targeting smart contracts, which have led to financial losses of millions of dollars and erosion of trust. To enable developers discover vulnerabilities in smart contracts, several …
Test-based generate-and-validate automated program repair (APR) systems generate many patches that pass the test suite without fixing the bug. The generated patches must be manually inspected by the developers, a task that tends to be time-consuming, thereby diminishing the role …
To face the climate change, Android developers urge to become green software developers. But how to ensure carbon-efficient mobile apps at large? In this paper, we introduce ecoCode, a SonarQube plugin able to highlight code structures that are smelly from an energy perspective. …
Voice-based virtual assistants are becoming increasingly popular. Such systems provide frameworks to developers on which they can build their own apps. End-users can interact with such apps through a Voice User Interface (VUI), which allows to use natural language commands to per…
With the application of deep learning (DL) in signal detection, improving the robustness of classification models has received much attention, especially in automatic modulation classification (AMC) of electromagnetic signals. A large amount of electromagnetic signal data is requ…
With the ever increasing scale and complexity of online systems, incidents are gradually becoming commonplace. Without appropriate handling, they can seriously harm the system availability. However, in large-scale online systems, these incidents are usually drowning in a slew of …
C# is the most widely used programming language among XR developers. However, only a limited number of graph-based data acquisition tools exist for C# software. XR development commonly relies on reusing existing software components to accelerate development. Graph-based visualiza…
User perceptions of national digital identity systems (NDIDs) significantly impact their use and acceptance. Previous study on the use of NDIDs has provided limited frameworks for future research, with a strong emphasis on government services as well as how the system may be impr…
Code clone detection is an important research problem that has attracted wide attention in software engineering. Many methods have been proposed for detecting code clone, among which text-based and token-based approaches are scalable but lack consideration of code semantics, thus…
Many real-world online systems expect to forecast the future trend of software quality to better automate operational processes, optimize software resource cost and ensure software reliability. To achieve that, all kinds of time series metrics collected from online software syste…
Partial code usually involves non-fully-qualified type names (non-FQNs) and undeclared receiving objects. Resolving the FQNs of these non-FQN types and undeclared receiving objects (referred to as type inference) is the prerequisite to effective search and reuse of partial code. …
Emotions (e.g., Joy, Anger) are prevalent in daily software engineering (SE) activities, and are known to be significant indicators of work productivity (e.g., bug fixing efficiency). Recent studies have shown that directly applying general purpose emotion classification tools to…
A key threat to the usage of third-party dependencies has been the threat of security vulnerabilities, which risks unwanted access to a user application. As part of an ecosystem of dependencies, users of a library are prone to both the direct and transitive dependencies adopted i…
Designing a large and complex software system depends not only on the nature of the system itself, but also on human-centric characteristics of the team of architects, developers, and managers involved in the design activity. Each of these team members often comes with varying le…
To make concurrent programming easier, languages (e.g., Go, Rust, Clojure) have started to offer core support for message passing through channels in shared memory. However, channels also have their issues. Multiparty session types (MPST) constitute a method to make channel usage…
Fuzzing has been an important approach for finding bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. Many fuzzers deployed in industry run daily and can generate an overwhelming number of crashes. Diagnosing such crashes can be very challenging and time-consuming. Existing fuzzers typically …
Research in hardware and software support for Virtual Reality (VR) has significantly increased over the last decade. Given the software platform fragmentation and hardware volatility, there is an apparent disconnect among practitioners while building applications in the VR domain…
Source code documentation is an important artifact for efficient software development. Code documentation could greatly benefit from automation since manual documentation is often labouring, resource and time-intensive. In this paper, we employed Codex for automatic code document…
To succeed with the development of modern software, organizations must have the agility to adapt faster to constantly evolving environments to deliver more reliable and optimized solutions that can be adapted to the needs and environments of their stakeholders including users, cu…
Template-based automatic program repair (T-APR) techniques depend on the quality of bug-fixing templates. For such templates to be of sufficient quality for T-APR techniques to succeed, they must satisfy three criteria: applicability, fixability, and efficiency. Existing template…