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Lost in Translation: A Study of Bugs Introduced by Large Language Models While Translating Code by Pan, Rangeet, Ibrahimzada, Ali Reza, Krishna, Rahul, Sankar, Divya, Wassi, Lambert Pougeum, Merler, Michele, Sobolev, Boris, Pavuluri, Raju, Sinha, Saurabh, Jabbarvand, Reyhaneh

“…Code translation aims to convert source code from one programming language (PL) to another. Given the promising abilities of large language models (LLMs) in…”
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Grounded Theory in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines by Stol, Klaas-Jan, Ralph, Paul, Fitzgerald, Brian

“…Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory…”
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Are code examples on an online Q&A forum reliable?: a study of API misuse on stack overflow by Zhang, Tianyi, Upadhyaya, Ganesha, Reinhardt, Anastasia, Rajan, Hridesh, Kim, Miryung

“…Programmers often consult an online Q&A forum such as Stack Overflow to learn new APIs. This paper presents an empirical study on the prevalence and severity…”
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What Makes Good In-Context Demonstrations for Code Intelligence Tasks with LLMs? by Gao, Shuzheng, Wen, Xin-Cheng, Gao, Cuiyun, Wang, Wenxuan, Zhang, Hongyu, Lyu, Michael R.

“…Pre-trained models of source code have gained widespread popularity in many code intelligence tasks. Recently, with the scaling of the model and corpus size,…”
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An Empirical Study on Fine-Tuning Large Language Models of Code for Automated Program Repair by Huang, Kai, Meng, Xiangxin, Zhang, Jian, Liu, Yang, Wang, Wenjie, Li, Shuhao, Zhang, Yuqing

“…The advent of large language models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities for automated program repair (APR). In particular, some recent studies have explored…”
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Secure coding practices in Java: challenges and vulnerabilities by Meng, Na, Nagy, Stefan, Yao, Danfeng (Daphne), Zhuang, Wenjie, Argoty, Gustavo Arango

“…The Java platform and its third-party libraries provide useful features to facilitate secure coding. However, misusing them can cost developers time and…”
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Nuances are the Key: Unlocking ChatGPT to Find Failure-Inducing Tests with Differential Prompting by Li, Tsz-On, Zong, Wenxi, Wang, Yibo, Tian, Haoye, Wang, Ying, Cheung, Shing-Chi, Kramer, Jeff

“…Automated detection of software failures is an important but challenging software engineering task. It involves finding in a vast search space the…”
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Gamma: Revisiting Template-Based Automated Program Repair Via Mask Prediction by Zhang, Quanjun, Fang, Chunrong, Zhang, Tongke, Yu, Bowen, Sun, Weisong, Chen, Zhenyu

“…Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs without manual debugging efforts and plays a crucial role in software development and maintenance…”
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How Many of All Bugs Do We Find? A Study of Static Bug Detectors by Habib, Andrew, Pradel, Michael

“…Static bug detectors are becoming increasingly popular and are widely used by professional software developers. While most work on bug detectors focuses on…”
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How Android Developers Handle Evolution-induced API Compatibility Issues: A Large-scale Study by Xia, Hao, Zhang, Yuan, Zhou, Yingtian, Chen, Xiaoting, Wang, Yang, Zhang, Xiangyu, Cui, Shuaishuai, Hong, Geng, Zhang, Xiaohan, Yang, Min, Yang, Zhemin

“…As Android platform evolves in a fast pace, API-related compatibility issues become a significant challenge for developers. To handle an incompatible API…”
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A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Vulnerability Distribution within Projects and the Lessons Learned by Liu, Bingchang, Meng, Guozhu, Zou, Wei, Gong, Qi, Li, Feng, Lin, Min, Sun, Dandan, Huo, Wei, Zhang, Chao

“…The number of vulnerabilities increases rapidly in recent years, due to advances in vulnerability discovery solutions. It enables a thorough analysis on the…”
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Assessing and Restoring Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks by Wang, Jiawei, KUO, Tzu-Yang, Li, Li, Zeller, Andreas

“…Jupyter notebooks-documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text-now are among the most popular means to compute, present,…”
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Understanding and Detecting Callback Compatibility Issues for Android Applications by Huang, Huaxun, Wei, Lili, Liu, Yepang, Cheung, Shing-Chi

“…The control flows of Android apps are largely driven by the protocols that govern how callback APIs are invoked in response to various events. When these…”
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An Empirical Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods for Pre-Trained Code Models by Liu, Jiaxing, Sha, Chaofeng, Peng, Xin

“…Pre-trained code models (e.g. CodeBERT and CodeT5) have demonstrated their code intelligence in various software engineering tasks, such as code summarization…”
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The Plastic Surgery Hypothesis in the Era of Large Language Models by Xia, Chunqiu Steven, Ding, Yifeng, Zhang, Lingming

“…Automated Program Repair (APR) aspires to automatically generate patches for an input buggy program. Traditional APR tools typically focus on specific bug…”
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Characterizing and Detecting Bugs in WeChat Mini-Programs by Wang, Tao, Xu, Qingxin, Chang, Xiaoning, Dou, Wensheng, Zhu, Jiaxin, Xie, Jinhui, Deng, Yuetang, Yang, Jianbo, Yang, Jiaheng, Wei, Jun, Huang, Tao

“…Built on the WeChat social platform, WeChat Mini-Programs are widely used by more than 400 million users every day. Consequently, the reliability of…”
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Where Shall We Log? Studying and Suggesting Logging Locations in Code Blocks by Li, Zhenhao, Chen, Tse-Hsun, Shang, Weiyi

“…Developers write logging statements to generate logs and record system execution behaviors to assist in debugging and software maintenance. However, deciding…”
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When Less is Enough: Positive and Unlabeled Learning Model for Vulnerability Detection by Wen, Xin-Cheng, Wang, Xinchen, Gao, Cuiyun, Wang, Shaohua, Liu, Yang, Gu, Zhaoquan

“…Automated code vulnerability detection has gained increasing attention in recent years. The deep learning (DL)-based methods, which implicitly learn vulnerable…”
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Understanding Transaction Bugs in Database Systems by Cui, Ziyu, Dou, Wensheng, Gao, Yu, Wang, Dong, Song, Jiansen, Zheng, Yingying, Wang, Tao, Yang, Rui, Xu, Kang, Hu, Yixin, Wei, Jun, Huang, Tao

“…Transactions are used to guarantee data consistency and integrity in Database Management Systems (DBMSs), and have become an indispensable component in DBMSs…”
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On the Evaluation of Neural Code Translation: Taxonomy and Benchmark by Jiao, Mingsheng, Yu, Tingrui, Li, Xuan, Qiu, Guanjie, Gu, Xiaodong, Shen, Beijun

“…In recent years, neural code translation has gained increasing attention. While most of the research focuses on improving model architectures and training…”
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