3 papers
cs.SE2026
What Makes Software Bugs Escape Testing? Evidence from a Large-Scale Empirical Study
Domenico Cotroneo, Giuseppe De Rosa, Cristina Improta +1
Understanding how software defects manifest and evolve in production environments is critical for improving reliability. While previous research has largely focused on pre-release…
cs.SE2026
Will It Break in Production? Metric-Driven Prediction of Residual Defects in Python Systems
Giuseppe De Rosa, Pietro Liguori
Python's dynamic nature complicates testing and increases the possibility that some defects evade detection, so an effective fault prediction becomes essential. We examine whether…
cs.SE2025
PyResBugs: A Dataset of Residual Python Bugs for Natural Language-Driven Fault Injection
Domenico Cotroneo, Giuseppe De Rosa, Pietro Liguori
This paper presents PyResBugs, a curated dataset of residual bugs, i.e., defects that persist undetected during traditional testing but later surface in production, collected from…