https://techgazette.com.br/research/#software This week's papers in Software engineering, each with what its authors did and found, in sentences from its own abstract. en 180 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858419 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858419 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: Missing security checks on critical variables are an important class of semantic bugs in the Linux kernel and can lead to severe vulnerabilities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22089 https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22089 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:41:00 GMT arXiv (systems & security) cs.SE Software engineering arXiv (systems & security) cs.SE — Did: We investigate how well the faults represented by these artifacts reflect those encountered in modern quantum software. Found: Yet only 56 of the 410 real-world bugs (13.7%) belong to families represented by either source; the remaining 354 (86.3%) belong to families absent from both. By Asif Mohammed Saad, Ahsanul Ameen Sabit, Jonah Brandenburgh, Jiyuan Wang, Qian Zhang, Soneya Binta Hossain. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858625 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858625 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a standard specification that defines how Foundation Model (FM)-based agents should interact with external systems by invoking tools. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3848515 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3848515 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: Code review is critical to software quality assurance, with defect detection as a primary objective. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3850239 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3850239 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: Hybrid work has become firmly established as a standard practice in software development in the post-pandemic era. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3857808 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3857808 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: For widespread deployment of autonomous driving systems (ADS), perception robustness plays a fundamental role. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3849699 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3849699 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOSEM Software engineering ACM TOSEM — Did: This paper addresses the security challenges of EOSIO smart contracts, which are deployed in WebAssembly bytecode, frequently targeted by attacks, and inherently difficult to analyze.