12 papers
SmellCC: A Tool for Automated Code Smells Remediation
Xiaoting Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Zhipeng Gao +2
Code smells significantly threaten software maintainability by accumulating technical debt, yet developers often lack the resources to manually address these flaws under tight rele…
Automating Just-In-Time Python Type Annotation Updating
Zhipeng Xue, Zhipeng Gao, Xing Hu +3
Type annotations are more and more popular in Python projects to avoid type errors caused by Python's dynamic typing feature. However, when developers change source code, these typ…
Refploit: Facilitating Exploit Construction via Code-Agent Trajectory Repair
Zirui Chen, Zhipeng Xue, Jiayuan Zhou +3
Vulnerability exploits play a crucial role in assessing the downstream impact of Java library vulnerabilities. While some vulnerabilities are accompanied by disclosed exploit refer…
ATTAIN: Automated Exploit Failure Analysis through Trace-Driven Diff Analysis
Xinwei Mao, Zirui Chen, Xing Hu +1
Exploits are widely used to check whether library vulnerabilities appear in different versions and to mark affected version ranges. Exploit-based checks sometimes fail because expl…
On the Shoulders of Giants: Empowering Automated Smart Contract Auditing via the GiAnt Corpus
Xiaoting Zhang, Zhipeng Gao, Yiran Lv +3
High-quality smart contract auditing datasets are crucial for evaluating security tools and advancing smart contract security research. Two major limitations of existing datasets a…
An Empirical Study of Speculative Decoding on Software Engineering Tasks
Yijia Li, Junkai Chen, Xing Hu +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become widely used for Software Engineering (SE) tasks, spanning from function-level code generation to complex repository-level workflows. Howeve…