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Numerical computation is dominant in deep learning (DL) programs. Consequently, numerical bugs are one of the most prominent kinds of defects in DL programs. Numerical bugs can lead to exceptional values such as NaN (Not-a-Number) and INF (Infinite), which can be propagated and e…
Automated program repair (APR) has attracted extensive attention and many APR techniques have been proposed recently, in which redundancy-based techniques have achieved great success. However, they still suffer from the efficiency issue mainly caused by the inaccuracy of measurin…
Sentiment analysis (SA) systems, though widely applied in many domains, have been demonstrated to produce biased results. Some research works have been done in automatically generating test cases to reveal unfairness in SA systems, but the community still lacks tools that can mon…
Big data has become valuable property for enterprises and enabled various intelligent applications. Today, it is common to host data in big data platforms (e.g., Spark), where developers can submit scripts to process the original and intermediate data tables. Meanwhile, it is hig…
We report here the use of a keyword-based and regular expression-based approach to identify bug-fixing commits by linking commit messages and issue tracker data in a recent FSE '20 paper by Penta et al. in their paper "On the Relationship between Refactoring Actions and Bugs: A D…
We report here the use of the 145 software engineering questions for data scientists presented in the Microsoft study in a recent FSE~'20 paper by Huijgens et al. The study by Begel et al. was replicated by Huijgens et al.
We report here the use of the static analysis dataset generated by FindBugs in a recent EMSE '21 paper by Yang et al. The artifact reproduced is supervised models to perform static analysis based on a golden feature set as studied by Wang et al.
Ensuring the equality of SMT solvers is critical due to its broad spectrum of applications in academia and industry, such as symbolic execution and program verification. Existing approaches to testing SMT solvers are either too costly or find difficulties generalizing to differen…
With the widespread adoption of smartphones in our daily life, mobile games experienced increasing demand over the past years. Meanwhile, the quality of mobile games has been continuously drawing more and more attention, which can greatly affect the player experience. For better …
We report here the reuse of oversampling, and modifications to the basic approach, used in a recent TSE ’21 paper by YedidaMenzies. The method reused is the oversampling technique studied by Buda et al. These methods were studied in the SE domain (specifically, for defect predict…
We report here the reuse of theoretical insights from deep learning literature, used in a recent TSE '21 paper by Yedida & Menzies. The artifact replicated is the lower bound on the number of piecewise linear regions in the decision boundary of a feedforward neural network with R…
Although OSS development is very popular, ultimately more than 80% of OSS projects fail. Identifying the factors associated with OSS success can help in devising interventions when a project takes a downturn. OSS success has been studied from a variety of angles, more recently in…
Memory vulnerabilities are the main causes of software security problems. However, detecting vulnerabilities in multi-threaded programs is challenging because many vulnerabilities occur under specific executions, and it is hard to explore all possible executions of a multi-thread…
The problem of checking if a program execution meets a formal specification arises in many software engineering tasks including runtime verification and designing test oracles. When online analysis is not possible, execution trace logs are stored for offline postmortem analysis, …
Modern web applications commonly include third-party scripts from external hosts. While enabling code reuse and enhancing the functionalities, the reliability of client-side JavaScript code can be impaired by the inclusion of other scripts. Since all scripts run in the same execu…
A good graphical user interface (GUI) is crucial for an application's usability, so vendors and regulatory agencies increasingly place restrictions on how GUI elements should appear to and interact with users. Motivated by this concern, this paper presents a new technique (based …
As specialized hardware accelerators like FPGAs become a prominent part of the current computing landscape, software applications are increasingly constructed to leverage heterogeneous architectures. Such a trend is already happening in the domain of machine learning and Internet…
Since the emergence of Ethereum, blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps) have become increasingly popular and important. To balance the security, performance, and costs, a DApp typically consists of two layers: an on-chain layer to execute transactions and store cruci…
Alloy is a declarative modeling language based on a first-order relational logic. Its constraint-based analysis has enabled a wide range of applications in software engineering, including configuration synthesis, bug finding, test-case generation, and security analysis. Certain t…
In cloud systems, incidents affect the availability of services and require quick mitigation actions. Once an incident occurs, operators and developers often examine logs to perform fault diagnosis. However, the large volume of diverse logs and the overwhelming details in log dat…