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cs.SE2025★ 2 cited

AL-Bench: A Benchmark for Automatic Logging

Boyin Tan, Junjielong Xu, Zhouruixing Zhu +1

Logging, the practice of inserting log statements into source code, is critical for improving software reliability. Recently, language model-based techniques have been developed to…

cs.SE2025

Code Benchmarks Should Prioritize Rigor, Reliability, and Reproducibility

Jialun Cao, Yuk-Kit Chan, Zixuan Ling +12

Code-related benchmarks play a critical role in evaluating large language models (LLMs), yet their quality fundamentally shapes how the community interprets model capabilities. In…

cs.SE2024

SPES: Towards Optimizing Performance-Resource Trade-Off for Serverless Functions

Cheryl Lee, Zhouruixing Zhu, Tianyi Yang +4

As an emerging cloud computing deployment paradigm, serverless computing is gaining traction due to its efficiency and ability to harness on-demand cloud resources. However, a sign…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Go Static: Contextualized Logging Statement Generation

Yichen Li, Yintong Huo, Renyi Zhong +6

Logging practices have been extensively investigated to assist developers in writing appropriate logging statements for documenting software behaviors. Although numerous automatic…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

LogicAsker: Evaluating and Improving the Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

Yuxuan Wan, Wenxuan Wang, Yiliu Yang +5

We introduce LogicAsker, a novel approach for evaluating and enhancing the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4. Despite LLMs' p…

cs.SE2023★ 6 cited

LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache

Zhihan Jiang, Jinyang Liu, Zhuangbin Chen +6

Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been…

cs.SE2023

An Image is Worth a Thousand Toxic Words: A Metamorphic Testing Framework for Content Moderation Software

Wenxuan Wang, Jingyuan Huang, Jen-tse Huang +4

The exponential growth of social media platforms has brought about a revolution in communication and content dissemination in human society. Nevertheless, these platforms are being…

cs.SE2023

AutoLog: A Log Sequence Synthesis Framework for Anomaly Detection

Yintong Huo, Yichen Li, Yuxin Su +3

The rapid progress of modern computing systems has led to a growing interest in informative run-time logs. Various log-based anomaly detection techniques have been proposed to ensu…

cs.SE2023

Hue: A User-Adaptive Parser for Hybrid Logs

Junjielong Xu, Qiuai Fu, Zhouruixing Zhu +4

Log parsing, which extracts log templates from semi-structured logs and produces structured logs, is the first and the most critical step in automated log analysis. While existing…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

ROME: Testing Image Captioning Systems via Recursive Object Melting

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Jiaqi Li +3

Image captioning (IC) systems aim to generate a text description of the salient objects in an image. In recent years, IC systems have been increasingly integrated into our daily li…

cs.SE2023★ 7 cited

Exploring the Effectiveness of LLMs in Automated Logging Generation: An Empirical Study

Yichen Li, Yintong Huo, Zhihan Jiang +5

Automated logging statement generation supports developers in documenting critical software runtime behavior. Given the great success in natural language generation and programming…

cs.SE2023

Validating Multimedia Content Moderation Software via Semantic Fusion

Wenxuan Wang, Jingyuan Huang, Chang Chen +5

The exponential growth of social media platforms, such as Facebook and TikTok, has revolutionized communication and content publication in human society. Users on these platforms c…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Incident-aware Duplicate Ticket Aggregation for Cloud Systems

Jinyang Liu, Shilin He, Zhuangbin Chen +10

In cloud systems, incidents are potential threats to customer satisfaction and business revenue. When customers are affected by incidents, they often request customer support servi…

cs.SE2022

Automated Testing of Image Captioning Systems

Boxi Yu, Zhiqing Zhong, Xinran Qin +3

Image captioning (IC) systems, which automatically generate a text description of the salient objects in an image (real or synthetic), have seen great progress over the past few ye…

cs.SE2022

AEON: A Method for Automatic Evaluation of NLP Test Cases

Jen-tse Huang, Jianping Zhang, Wenxuan Wang +3

Due to the labor-intensive nature of manual test oracle construction, various automated testing techniques have been proposed to enhance the reliability of Natural Language Process…

cs.SE2020★ 102 cited

Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research

Paul Ralph, Nauman bin Ali, Sebastian Baltes +39

Empirical Standards are natural-language models of a scientific community's expectations for a specific kind of study (e.g. a questionnaire survey). The ACM SIGSOFT Paper and Peer…

cs.SE2020★ 35 cited

A Survey on Automated Log Analysis for Reliability Engineering

Shilin He, Pinjia He, Zhuangbin Chen +3

Logs are semi-structured text generated by logging statements in software source code. In recent decades, software logs have become imperative in the reliability assurance mechanis…

cs.SE2020★ 45 cited

Loghub: A Large Collection of System Log Datasets for AI-driven Log Analytics

Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Pinjia He +2

Logs have been widely adopted in software system development and maintenance because of the rich runtime information they record. In recent years, the increase of software size and…

cs.SE2019★ 2 cited

Structure-Invariant Testing for Machine Translation

Pinjia He, Clara Meister, Zhendong Su

In recent years, machine translation software has increasingly been integrated into our daily lives. People routinely use machine translation for various applications, such as desc…

cs.SE2018★ 16 cited

Tools and Benchmarks for Automated Log Parsing

Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Jinyang Liu +4

Logs are imperative in the development and maintenance process of many software systems. They record detailed runtime information that allows developers and support engineers to mo…

cs.SE2018★ 23 cited

A Directed Acyclic Graph Approach to Online Log Parsing

Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Pengcheng Xu +2

Logs are widely used in modern software system management because they are often the only data accessible that record system events at runtime. In recent years, because of the ever…

cs.SE2015

CARP: Context-Aware Reliability Prediction of Black-Box Web Services

Jieming Zhu, Pinjia He, Qi Xie +2

Reliability prediction is an important task in software reliability engineering, which has been widely studied in the last decades. However, modelling and predicting user-perceived…