Debugging software failures is still a painful, time consuming, and expensive process. For
instance, recent studies showed that debugging activities often account for about 50% of the …

Debugging is notoriously difficult and extremely time consuming. Researchers have
therefore invested a considerable amount of effort in developing automated techniques and …

Several automated program repair techniques have been proposed to reduce the time and
effort spent in bug-fixing. While these repair tools are designed to be generic such that they …

Automated program repair techniques use a buggy program and a partial specification
(typically a test suite) to produce a program variant that satisfies the specification. While prior …

Programming mistakes of all kinds-in source code, configurations, tests, or other artifacts-are
a wide-ranging and expensive problem. Developers dedicate a significant proportion of …

Effective automated program repair techniques have great potential to reduce the costs of
debugging and maintenance. Previously proposed automated program repair (APR) …

When a program fails to process an input, it need not be the program code that is at fault. It
can also be that the input data is faulty, for instance as result of data corruption. To get the …

Software bugs can cause significant financial loss and even the loss of human lives. To
reduce such loss, developers devote substantial efforts to fixing bugs, which generally …

A large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging,
including both automated fault localization and program repair. However, existing fault …

We present our automated program repair technique ssFix which leverages existing code
(from a code database) that is syntax-related to the context of a bug to produce patches for …