| Abstract: | This article is a survey on the recent progress of some hot topics of software engineering. The survey is based on the review on the papers of three premier conferences on software engineering from 2012 to 2013. Through the quantitative analysis on these papers, there are three hot topics identified, software testing, debugging, and analysis. Focusing on these three topics, this article summarizes some new achievements in these fields, analyzesthe characteristics of these works, and points out some directions for future research. |
