Bug localisation and source code comprehension are critical domains within software engineering that focus on efficiently identifying and understanding defects in complex codebases. These processes ...

Static code analysis and bug detection are integral to modern software engineering, providing a systematic approach to identify defects and security vulnerabilities without executing the code. By ...

Fortify Software Inc. and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects ...

Fortify Software and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects run ...

Watch Out, Software Engineers: ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code A new study asks ChatGPT to find bugs in sample code and suggest a fix. It works better than existing programs, fixing 31 out ...

A new report by AI software company CodeRabbit found that code generated by an AI was far more error-prone than human-written ...

Generative artificial intelligence code quality startup Early Technologies Ltd. announced the availability of its VSCode extension today after closing on $5 million in seed funding. Today’s round was ...

Researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) tend to parrot buggy code when tasked with completing flawed snippets.… That is to say, when shown a snippet of shoddy code and asked to fill ...

Programming is a constant game of mental Jenga: one line of code stacked upon another, building a tower of code you hope is robust enough not to come crashing down. But it always does, as code never ...

The average AI-generated pull request has 10.83 issues compared with 6.45 for human code, report claims Quality can be better in terms of typos, leaving room for human reviewers Microsoft code patches ...