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Software logs play an essential role in ensuring the reliability and maintainability of large-scale software systems, as they are often the sole source of runtime information. Log parsing, which converts raw log messages into structured data, is an important initial step towards …
Mutation testing can help reduce the risks of releasing faulty software. For such reason, it is a desired practice for the development of embedded software running in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). Unfortunately, state-of-the-art test data generation techniques for…
Ensuring the reliability and user satisfaction of cloud services necessitates prompt anomaly detection followed by diagnosis. Existing techniques for anomaly detection focus solely on real-time detection, meaning that anomaly alerts are issued as soon as anomalies occur. However,…
Software developers handle many complex tasks that include gathering and applying domain knowledge, coordinating subtasks, designing interfaces, turning ideas into elegant code, and more. They must switch contexts between these tasks, incurring more cognitive costs. Recent advanc…
Developers write logging statements to generate logs that provide run-time information for various tasks. The readability of log messages in the logging statements (i.e., the descriptive text) is rather crucial to the value of the generated logs. Immature log messages may slow do…
The rapid development of deep learning has significantly transformed the ecology of the software engineering field. As new data continues to grow and evolve at an explosive rate, the challenge of iteratively updating software built on neural networks has become a critical issue. …
Developers introduce code clones to improve programming productivity. Many existing studies have achieved impressive performance in monolingual code clone detection. However, during software development, more and more developers write semantically equivalent programs with differe…
In the face of increased threats within software registries and management systems, we address the critical need for effective malicious code detection. In this paper, we propose an innovative approach that integrates source code slicing, inter-procedural analysis, and cross-file…
Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an essential component of software, accelerating development and reducing maintenance costs. However, breaking changes often occur during the upgrades of TPLs and prevent client programs from moving forward. Semantic versioning (SemVer) ha…
Advanced machine learning models (ML) have been successfully leveraged in several software engineering (SE) applications. The existing SE techniques have used the embedding models ranging from static to contextualized ones to build the vectors for program units. The contextualize…
The reliability of decision-making policies is urgently important today as they have established the fundamentals of many critical applications, such as autonomous driving and robotics. To ensure reliability, there have been a number of research efforts on testing decision-making…
Open source software (OSS) licenses regulate the conditions under which users can reuse, modify, and distribute the software legally. However, there exist various OSS licenses in the community, written in a formal language, which are typically long and complicated to understand. …
Automated detection of software failures is an important but challenging software engineering task. It involves finding in a vast search space the failure-inducing test cases that contain an input triggering the software fault and an oracle asserting the incorrect execution. We a…
Deep learning has been widely used in source code classification tasks, such as code classification according to their functionalities, code authorship attribution, and vulnerability detection. Unfortunately, the black-box nature of deep learning makes it hard to interpret and un…
As the most popular Python software repository, PyPI has become an indispensable part of the Python ecosystem. Regrettably, the open nature of PyPI exposes end-users to substantial security risks stemming from malicious packages. Consequently, the timely and effective identificat…
Web UI test cases are used for the automatic testing of web applications. When a web application is updated, these UI tests should also be updated for regression testing of the new version of web application. With the rapid evolution, updating UI tests is a tedious and time-consu…
React Native is a widely-used open-source frame-work that facilitates the development of cross-platform mobile apps. The framework enables JavaScript code to interact with native-side code, such as Objective-C/Swift for iOS and Java/Kotlin for Android, via a communication mechani…
Virtualization has been widely used in various scenarios, such as cloud computing. As its core technology, virtualization hypervisor brings up the efficiency of sharing the physical machine's resources via virtual devices. However, virtualization hypervisor also introduces signif…
Android applications are getting bigger with an increasing number of features. However, not all the features are needed by a specific user. The unnecessary features can increase the attack surface and cost additional resources (e.g., storage and memory). Therefore, it is importan…
Ensuring the reliability of cloud systems is critical for both cloud vendors and customers. Cloud systems often rely on virtualization techniques to create instances of hardware resources, such as virtual machines. However, virtualization hinders the observability of cloud system…