Cristina Improta

According to our database, Cristina Improta authored at least 12 papers between 2022 and 2026.

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2026

What Makes Software Bugs Escape Testing? Evidence from a Large-Scale Empirical Study.

Domenico Cotroneo, Giuseppe De Rosa, Cristina Improta, Benedetta Gaia Varriale

CoRR, April, 2026

2025

Enhancing robustness of AI offensive code generators via data augmentation.

Cristina Improta, Pietro Liguori, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Domenico Cotroneo

Empir. Softw. Eng., February, 2025

Quality In, Quality Out: Investigating Training Data's Role in AI Code Generation.

Cristina Improta, Rosalia Tufano, Pietro Liguori, Domenico Cotroneo, Gabriele Bavota

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2025

Detecting Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks in AI Code Generators.

Cristina Improta

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2025, 2025

Human-Written vs. AI-Generated Code: A Large-Scale Study of Defects, Vulnerabilities, and Complexity.

Domenico Cotroneo, Cristina Improta, Pietro Liguori

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2025

2024

Automating the correctness assessment of AI-generated code for security contexts.

Domenico Cotroneo, Alessio Foggia, Cristina Improta, Pietro Liguori, Roberto Natella

J. Syst. Softw., 2024

AI Code Generators for Security: Friend or Foe?

Roberto Natella, Pietro Liguori, Cristina Improta, Bojan Cukic, Domenico Cotroneo

IEEE Secur. Priv., 2024

Vulnerabilities in AI Code Generators: Exploring Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks.

Domenico Cotroneo, Cristina Improta, Pietro Liguori, Roberto Natella

Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2024

Enhancing AI-based Generation of Software Exploits with Contextual Information.

Pietro Liguori, Cristina Improta, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Domenico Cotroneo

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, 2024

2023

Who evaluates the evaluators? On automatic metrics for assessing AI-based offensive code generators.

Pietro Liguori, Cristina Improta, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Domenico Cotroneo

Expert Syst. Appl., September, 2023

Poisoning Programs by Un-Repairing Code: Security Concerns of AI-generated Code.

Cristina Improta

Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2023, 2023

2022

Can NMT Understand Me? Towards Perturbation-based Evaluation of NMT Models for Code Generation.

Pietro Liguori, Cristina Improta, Simona De Vivo, Roberto Natella, Bojan Cukic, Domenico Cotroneo

Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Natural Language-Based Software Engineering (NLBSE 2022), 2022