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cs.SEEmpiricalRecentJul 21, 2026

LLM-Based Invariant Testing for Software Functional Bugs

Ruogu Yang, Yifeng He, Yundi Xu, Yuqing Wei +1 more

LISA is a novel LLM-based invariant testing framework for software functional bugs, achieving higher bug-detection rates and competitive code coverage than fuzzing and prior LLM-based test generation…

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cs.CRRecentMay 8, 2026

Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study

Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Kyle Domico, Yohan Beugin, Patrick McDaniel

This study conducts a large-scale longitudinal analysis of CodeQL, finding that while the tool is effective at detecting vulnerabilities, its detection capabilities are not guaranteed to be stable acr…

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cs.CRcs.SERecentMay 3, 2026

QASecClaw: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach for False Positive Reduction in Static Application Security Testing

Mohd Ruhul Ameen, Md Takrim Ul Alam, Akif Islam

QASecClaw, a multi-agent LLM system, significantly improves the accuracy of Static Application Security Testing (SAST) by using specialized LLM agents to filter out false positives, achieving an F1 sc…

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cs.SEcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Multi-Agent LLM-based Metamorphic Testing for REST APIs

Shehroz Khan, Abdullah Mughees, Gaadha Sudheerbabu, Tanwir Ahmad +1 more

The paper introduces ARMeta, an LLM-based multi-agent system that automates metamorphic testing for REST APIs documented with OpenAPI, demonstrating its ability to find complementary bugs compared to…

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cs.CRcs.SERecentMay 5, 2026

Generating Proof-of-Vulnerability Tests to Help Enhance the Security of Complex Software

Shravya Kanchi, Xiaoyan Zang, Ying Zhang, Danfeng Yao +1 more

The paper introduces PoVSmith, an agent-based system that uses large language models and call path analysis to automatically generate and assess proof-of-vulnerability tests, significantly improving t…

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cs.SEEmpiricalRecentJun 29, 2026

How do Execution Features Improve Statistical Fault Localization? An Empirical Study

Marius Smytzek, Andreas Zeller

This paper evaluates the improvement of statistical fault localization by augmenting it with execution features.

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cs.SEcs.CRRecentMar 18, 2026

Who Tests the Testers? Systematic Enumeration and Coverage Audit of LLM Agent Tool Call Safety

Xuan Chen, Lu Yan, Ruqi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang

The paper introduces SafeAudit, a meta-audit framework that systematically enumerates test cases and uses a quantitative metric to uncover significant residual unsafe behaviors in LLM agents that exis…

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cs.SEcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Inferring Code Correctness from Specification

Tambon Florian, Papadakis Mike

The paper introduces TRAILS~, a novel method that improves code correctness validation by grounding LLM reasoning in concrete (input, output) pairs derived from specifications, achieving state-of-the-…

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cs.SEEmpiricalRecentJul 27, 2026

Industrial Practice of LLM-Based Test Case Carving and Assertion Generation (Experience Paper)

Haozhen You, Zhen Dong, Jingjing Wang, Qiang Li +1 more

This paper presents NL2Test, a tool that generates executable API regression tests from natural-language scenario descriptions and traffic captures, achieving an 82.4% exact-match rate in industrial s…

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cs.SEcs.AIEmpiricalRecentJun 16, 2026

All Smoke, No Alarm: Oracle Signals in Agent-Authored Test Code

Dipayan Banik, Kowshik Chowdhury, Shazibul Islam Shamim

This paper characterizes oracle signals in test files of agent-authored pull requests and assesses their impact on merge outcomes.

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cs.SEcs.AIcs.NIEmpiricalRecentJun 19, 2026

Context-Aware Generative AI for Automated Telecom Test Script Generation

Gautam Prasad, Chandramohan T. N., Joy Bose

This paper proposes a context-aware AI framework for generating telecom test scripts that adapt to fine-grained changes in the system using a delta engine and a knowledge graph.

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cs.SEEmpiricalRecentJul 13, 2026

Knowledge-Guided Synthetic Bug Feedback for LLM-Based Unit Test Generation

Ziheng Wang, Maike Li, Chen Zhi

This paper proposes a framework to transform historical real-bug mechanisms into executable feedback targets for LLM-based unit test generation, improving real-bug detection over various baselines.

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cs.SEcs.CRcs.PLRecentApr 29, 2026

Adaptive and AI-Augmented Security Testing: A Systematic Survey of Program Analysis, Feedback-Driven Testing, and Hybrid Learning-Based Approaches

Michael Wienczkowski

This paper systematically surveys adaptive and AI-augmented security testing, concluding that a major gap exists—structural-adaptive fragmentation—where current systems fail to integrate structural pr…

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cs.SEcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Code-QA-Bench: Separating Code Reasoning from Documentation Memorization in Repository-Level QA

Jun Zhang, JianYing Qu, Hanwen Du, Zhongkai Sun +2 more

The paper introduces Code-QA-Bench, a novel framework that rigorously separates genuine code reasoning from mere documentation memorization in repository-level code understanding benchmarks.

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cs.SEcs.AIEmpiricalRecentJul 22, 2026

Beyond Fail-to-Pass: Iterative Hardening of Co-Generated Bug Reproduction Tests and Fixes

Yuhao Tan, Zhibang Yang, Fangkai Yang, Yuan Yao +8 more

This paper proposes CoHarden, a co-generation framework for automated program repair that uses a lax signal as an in-loop convergence criterion to prevent lax regressions.

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cs.CRRecentMay 27, 2026

Do you dare to try Test-Driven Forensics? Increasing Trust in Desktop Forensics with ADARE

Michael Külper, Martin Lambertz, Mariia Rybalka

The paper introduces Test-Driven Forensics, an approach that treats forensic expectations as executable tests to detect and measure the degradation of repeatability and confidence in digital forensic…

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cs.CRcs.SEEmpiricalRecentJul 16, 2026

The Distributed Open-Source Vulnerability Ecosystem

Peter Mandl, Paul Mandl

This paper explores the causes of inconsistent vulnerability scanner findings in the open-source ecosystem.

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cs.SEcs.AIRecentMay 31, 2026

FVSpec: Real-World Property-Based Tests as Lean Challenges

Quinn Dougherty, Max von Hippel, Hazel Shackleton, Mike Dodds

The paper introduces FVSpec, a large-scale benchmark that translates thousands of real-world Python property-based tests into formal Lean 4 specifications to evaluate AI models for formal software ver…

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