The effectiveness of search-based automated program repair is limited in the number of
correct patches that can be successfully generated. There are two causes of such limitation …

Automatically localizing software bugs to the changesets that induced them has the potential
to improve software developer efficiency and to positively affect software quality. To facilitate …

This chapter describes traditional and intuitive fault localization techniques, including
program logging, assertions, breakpoints, and profiling. Many advanced fault localization …

Spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) techniques are widely studied and have been
evaluated to be effective in locating faults. Recent studies also showed that developers from …

Data traceability in software development can connect different software artifacts to enhance
the observability of developer practices. In particular, traceability links between issues and …

Enlightened by the big success of pre-training in natural language processing, pre-trained
models for programming languages have been widely used to promote code intelligence in …

Bug-inducing commits provide important information to understand when and how bugs
were introduced. Therefore, they have been extensively investigated by existing studies and …

Type annotations and gradual type checkers attempt to reveal errors and facilitate
maintenance in dynamically typed programming languages. Despite the availability of these …

Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field attracting the interest of both researchers and
software developers. Supported by its numerous open-source tools, developers can now …

Context: Software crash is a serious form of the software failure, which often occurs during
the software development and maintenance process. As the stack trace reported when the …