Deep learning-based software engineering: progress, challenges, and opportunities

X Chen, X Hu, Y Huang, H Jiang, W Ji, Y Jiang… - Science China …, 2025 - Springer
Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques,
which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural …

A survey on deep learning tools dealing with data scarcity: definitions, challenges, solutions, tips, and applications

L Alzubaidi, J Bai, A Al-Sabaawi, J Santamaría… - Journal of Big Data, 2023 - Springer
Data scarcity is a major challenge when training deep learning (DL) models. DL demands a
large amount of data to achieve exceptional performance. Unfortunately, many applications …

Deep learning approaches for bad smell detection: a systematic literature review

A Alazba, H Aljamaan, M Alshayeb - Empirical Software Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Context Bad smells negatively impact software quality metrics such as understandability,
reusability, and maintainability. Reduced costs and enhanced software quality can be …

Neural transfer learning for repairing security vulnerabilities in c code

Z Chen, S Kommrusch… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of automatic repair of software vulnerabilities with
deep learning. The major problem with data-driven vulnerability repair is that the few …

A survey on machine learning techniques for source code analysis

T Sharma, M Kechagia, S Georgiou, R Tiwari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

DeleSmell: Code smell detection based on deep learning and latent semantic analysis

Y Zhang, C Ge, S Hong, R Tian, C Dong… - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of code smells will increase the risk of failure, make software difficult to
maintain, and introduce potential technique debt in the future. Although many deep-learning …

Code smell detection using ensemble machine learning algorithms

S Dewangan, RS Rao, A Mishra, M Gupta - Applied sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Code smells are the result of not following software engineering principles during software
development, especially in the design and coding phase. It leads to low maintainability. To …

Code smell detection based on supervised learning models: A survey

Y Zhang, C Ge, H Liu, K Zheng - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Supervised learning-based code smell detection has become one of the dominant
approaches to identify code smell. Existing works optimize the process of code smell …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code

T Sharma, M Kechagia, S Georgiou, R Tiwari… - Journal of Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

On the relative value of imbalanced learning for code smell detection

F Li, K Zou, JW Keung, X Yu, S Feng… - Software: Practice and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Machine learning‐based code smell detection (CSD) has been demonstrated to be a
valuable approach for improving software quality and enabling developers to identify …