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Although block-based programming languages like Scratch simplify the creation of programs, learning to program can nevertheless be challenging. Program analysis tools such as linters therefore support learners by providing feedback about potential bugs ...

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.

We aim to provide an overview of existing works on bug reproduction and ...

• Systematic mapping of 134 primary studies.
• Bug localization and reproduction are mostly studied for Java and C programs.
• Most approaches were tested in experimental settings rather than active projects.

We present the results of a prospective observational study aimed to understand whether there is a relationship between personality traits (i.e., agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism, and openness) and the performance of ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming increasingly important components of software, and are considered the state-of-the-art solution for a number of problems, such as image recognition. However, DNNs are far from infallible, and incorrect ...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) become increasingly popular. However, the vulnerability of DNNs can lead to a performance decrease when they cannot correctly predict the given samples. We propose a repair method for DNN-based classifiers to solve this ...$\mathrm{}$$\mathrm{}$

Bug fixing is a frequent and important task in Open Source Software (OSS) development and involves the communication of messages, which can serve for multiple purposes and affect the efficiency and effectiveness of ...

• Functions of comments vary with respect to fixed and not fixed bugs.
• Functions ...

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have grown in popularity over the past decade and are now being used in safety-critical domains such as aircraft collision avoidance. This has motivated a large number of techniques for finding unsafe behavior in DNNs. In ...

Compile-time errors can wreak havoc for programmers – seasoned and novice. Often developers spend a lot of time debugging them. An automated system to repair such errors can be a useful aid to the developers for their productivity. In this work, ...

Developers collaboratively implement large-scale industrial and open-source projects. Such projects pose several challenges for developers, as they require considerable knowledge about the project and its development processes, for instance, to fix bugs ...

Distributed systems nowadays are the backbone of computing society, and are expected to have high availability. Unfortunately, distributed timing bugs, a type of bugs triggered by non-deterministic timing of messages and node crashes, widely exist. They ...

An issue report describes a bug or a feature request for a software system. When resolving an issue report, developers may discuss with other developers and/or the reporter to clarify and resolve the reported issue. During this process, questions can be ...

When encountering an issue, technical users (e.g., developers) usually file the issue report to the issue tracking systems. But non-technical end-users are more likely to express their opinions on social network platforms, such as Twitter. For ...

Bug reports seldom contain information about the steps to reproduce a failure. Therefore, failure reproduction is a time consuming, difficult, and sometimes impossible task for software developers. Users are either unaware of the importance of steps to ...