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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 32 of 32 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2507.13035.

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This paper cites Phi-4 Technical Report.

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Phi-4 Technical Report

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

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This paper cites 2016.Reducing system testing effort by focusing on commonalities in test procedures.

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases 2016.Reducing system testing effort by focusing on commonalities in test procedures

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This paper cites MetaPrompting: Learning to Learn Better Prompts.

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases MetaPrompting: Learning to Learn Better Prompts

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This paper cites 2025.Ollama: Run large language models locally.

Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases 2025.Ollama: Run large language models locally

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Unresolved cited work

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Guiding Large Language Models via Directional Stimulus Prompting

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Small Language Models: Survey, Measurements, and Insights

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Unresolved cited work

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Is Temperature the Creativity Parameter of Large Language Models?

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases On the Effectiveness of LLMs for Manual Test Verifications

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases NALABS: Detecting Bad Smells in Natural Language Requirements and Test Specifications

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases Gemma 3 Technical Report

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases A Survey of Small Language Models

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Investigating the Performance of Small Language Models in Detecting Test Smells in Manual Test Cases ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology34, 2 (2025), 1–28

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