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Grounding Deep Learning Framework Testing in Data Flow
Jiatao Ge, Yanzhou Mu, Yinglong Zou +3
Data flow underlies deep learning (DL) framework execution, including automatic differentiation and operator-fusion optimization. Bugs involving data flow can cause incorrect resul…
Security of Agent-Integrated Software: When Human Operations and Agent Actions Coexist
Ding Yang, Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu +2
Agent-Integrated Software (AIS) embeds an intelligent agent in a conventional application, supporting both human operations and agent actions. Human operations let users make preci…
Agent-Integrated Software: Interaction Contracts and Continuous Assurance
Shengcheng Yu, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen
Embedding an intelligent agent in an existing application creates a persistent coordination problem: users can revise goals and manipulate shared objects while delegated execution…
Self-Evolving Coding Agents
Hao Zhou, Haichuan Hu, Tianyu Luo +5
Large language models are increasingly embedded in software engineering workflows as coding agents that can inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute tests, debug failures, and g…
When Not to Imitate: Boundary-Aware Skill Memory for Reliable Tool-Use LLM Agents
Zihan Lin, Zhenyu Chen, Jiawen Wei +6
Extracting skills from past successes is critical for the efficient evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) agents. Prevailing agent self-evolution paradigms typically rely on a co…
MaliciousSkillBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Malicious Agent Skill Detection
Yue Wang, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng +4
Agent Skills extend LLM agents with reusable instruction packages that may also include scripts, resources, and service configuration. This creates a direct distribution channel fo…
Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent
Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Junyang Xing +3
GUI agents have advanced rapidly, producing a growing body of frameworks, benchmarks, and applications. However, this growth has outpaced the maturity of the field. GUI agents rema…
Breaking Customized LLMs for Coding: Automated Red Teaming for Instruction Backdoor Attacks
Yuchen Chen, Wei Cheng, Yuan Xiao +5
LLM customization platforms allow users to build task-specific models for code intelligence tasks by embedding instructions into system prompts, without modifying the underlying mo…
Insecure Coding Preferences in Long-Term Memory: Security Risks for LLM-based Code Generation
Yuchen Chen, Wei Cheng, Yuan Xiao +7
LLM-based systems increasingly incorporate long-term memory to improve cross-session continuity. However, once insecure coding preferences are stored, they may silently influence s…
ReProAgent: Tool-Augmented Multi-Stage Agentic Generation of Bug Reproduction Tests from Issue Reports
Quanjun Zhang, Yi Zheng, Ye Shang +5
Reproduction tests help developers confirm reported issues and provide executable feedback for issue resolution, yet issue reports in open-source projects rarely include such tests…
Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration for Unit Test Generation via Human-Testing-Inspired Workflows
Quanjun Zhang, Ye Shang, Siqi Gu +4
Recently, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred a surge of research into automated unit test generation, yielding impressive performance and reducing manual eff…
Thinking More, Harnessing Better: State Machine Guided Harness Automatic Generation with Project Digestion and Workflow Decomposition
Xing Zhang, Zikang Huang, Gang Yang +9
High-quality fuzz harnesses are essential for effective gray-box fuzzing. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promise for automating this task, existing one-turn generation me…
Rise From The Ashes: LLM-based Static Analysis for Deep Learning Framework Bugs
Shaoyu Yang, Haifeng Lin, Chunrong Fang +6
Deep learning (DL) frameworks are critical AI infrastructures that often hide bugs with serious security implications. While dynamic approaches such as fuzzing are effective in unc…
Investigating Metamorphic Fuzz Oracle Enhancement via Large Language Models
Ruixiang Qian, Ding Yang, Zengxu Chen +4
Fuzz drivers are essential components of greybox fuzzing, as they encapsulate target interfaces, define test spaces, and largely determine fuzzing effectiveness. Existing fuzz driv…
Securing Code Understanding: Detecting Natural Backdoor Vulnerability in Code Language Models
Yuchen Chen, Weisong Sun, Haocheng Huang +11
Code Language Models (CodeLMs) have become integral to software engineering, significantly advancing code intelligence tasks. However, their widespread adoption has raised critical…
Execution-Grounded Security Testing for Coding Agents in Software Engineering Pipelines
Yifei Ge, Weisong Sun, Jinkun Xiao +8
Coding agents are increasingly integrated into system operations, where their tool use can directly modify project artifacts, execution environments, and the underlying system. For…
Toward Secure LLM Agents: Threat Surfaces, Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluation
Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen +1
Large language model (LLM) agents are rapidly moving from conversational interfaces to software components that plan, invoke tools, maintain memory, and act on external environment…
Probing Privacy Leaks in LLM-based Code Generation via Test Generation
Yifei Ge, Zhenpeng Chen, Weisong Sun +7
The widespread availability of large-scale code datasets has fueled the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) for code-related tasks. These datasets may include sensiti…
Breaking, Stale, or Missing? Benchmarking Coding Agents on Project-Level Test Evolution
Ye Shang, Quanjun Zhang, Haichuan Hu +3
As production code evolves, the test suite must co-evolve to remain effective. Existing benchmarks for test evolution operate at method-level granularity with pre-paired inputs, by…
Learning from Repair Experience: Self-Evolving Agents for Automated Vulnerability Repair
Haichuan Hu, Guoqing Xie, Quanjun Zhang +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise for automated vulnerability repair (AVR), but they still face several limitations, including the lack of intra-vulnerability experie…
Train in Vain: Functionality-Preserving Poisoning to Prevent Unauthorized Use of Code Datasets
Yuan Xiao, Jiaming Wang, Yuchen Chen +8
The widespread availability of large-scale code datasets has accelerated the development of code large language models (CodeLLMs), raising concerns about unauthorized dataset usage…
DuCodeMark: Dual-Purpose Code Dataset Watermarking via Style-Aware Watermark-Poison Design
Yuchen Chen, Yuan Xiao, Chunrong Fang +2
The proliferation of large language models for code (CodeLMs) and open-source contributions has heightened concerns over unauthorized use of source code datasets. While watermarkin…
Towards Automated Crowdsourced Testing via Personified-LLM
Shengcheng Yu, Yuchen Ling, Chunrong Fang +2
The rapid proliferation and increasing complexity of software demand robust quality assurance, with graphical user interface (GUI) testing playing a pivotal role. Crowdsourced test…
Log-based, Business-aware REST API Testing
Ding Yang, Ruixiang Qian, Zhao Wei +2
REST APIs enable collaboration among microservices. A single fault in a REST API can bring down the entire microservice system and cause significant financial losses, underscoring…