Paper-Conference

Exploring LLM-Driven Explanations for Quantum Algorithms

Background- Quantum computing is a rapidly growing new programming paradigm that brings significant changes to the design and implementation of algorithms. Understanding quantum …

giordano-daloisio

Toward Systematizing Hot Fixing for Production Software

A hot fix is an unplanned improvement to a specific time-critical issue deployed to a system in production. This topic has never been surveyed within software engineering despite …

carol-hanna

Enhancing genetic improvement mutations using large language models

Large language models (LLMs) have been successfully applied to software engineering tasks, including program repair. However, their application in search-based techniques such as …

alexander-e.i.-brownlee

Evaluating explanations for software patches generated by large language models

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been integrated in a variety of applications including software engineering tasks. In this work, we study the use of LLMs to enhance the …

dominik-sobania

Hot Patching Hot Fixes: Reflection and Perspectives

With our reliance on software continuously increasing, it is of utmost importance that it be reliable. However, complete prevention of bugs in live systems is unfortunately an …

carol-hanna

An Analysis of the Automatic Bug Fixing Performance of ChatGPT

To support software developers in finding and fixing software bugs, several automated program repair techniques have been introduced. Given a test suite, standard methods usually …

dominik-sobania