A survey on deep learning for software engineering

Y Yang, X Xia, D Lo, J Grundy - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
In 2006, Geoffrey Hinton proposed the concept of training “Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)”
and an improved model training method to break the bottleneck of neural network …

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 …

Less training, more repairing please: revisiting automated program repair via zero-shot learning

CS Xia, L Zhang - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Due to the promising future of Automated Program Repair (APR), researchers have
proposed various APR techniques, including heuristic-based, template-based, and …

An extensive study on pre-trained models for program understanding and generation

Z Zeng, H Tan, H Zhang, J Li, Y Zhang… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Automatic program understanding and generation techniques could significantly advance
the productivity of programmers and have been widely studied by academia and industry …

Large language models are few-shot testers: Exploring llm-based general bug reproduction

S Kang, J Yoon, S Yoo - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many automated test generation techniques have been developed to aid developers with
writing tests. To facilitate full automation, most existing techniques aim to either increase …

Agentless: Demystifying llm-based software engineering agents

CS Xia, Y Deng, S Dunn, L Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01489, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the
automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and …

Deep learning library testing via effective model generation

Z Wang, M Yan, J Chen, S Liu, D Zhang - … of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning (DL) techniques are rapidly developed and have been widely adopted in
practice. However, similar to traditional software systems, DL systems also contain bugs …

Free lunch for testing: Fuzzing deep-learning libraries from open source

A Wei, Y Deng, C Yang, L Zhang - Proceedings of the 44th International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning (DL) systems can make our life much easier, and thus are gaining more and
more attention from both academia and industry. Meanwhile, bugs in DL systems can be …

Explainable automated debugging via large language model-driven scientific debugging

S Kang, B Chen, S Yoo, JG Lou - Empirical Software Engineering, 2025 - Springer
Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in
debugging. However, while developers want rationales for the provided automatic …

Fault localization with code coverage representation learning

Y Li, S Wang, T Nguyen - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose DeepRL4FL, a deep learning fault localization (FL) approach that
locates the buggy code at the statement and method levels by treating FL as an image …