This article presents a survey on automatic software repair. Automatic software repair
consists of automatically finding a solution to software bugs without human intervention. This …

JavaScript is a popular programming language that is also error-prone due to its
asynchronous, dynamic, and loosely-typed nature. In recent years, numerous techniques …

Most programmers make mistakes when writing code. Some of these mistakes are small and
require few edits to the original program–a class of errors recently termed last mile mistakes …

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge
about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary …

Millions of open source projects with numerous bug fixes are available in code repositories.
This proliferation of software development histories can be leveraged to learn how to fix …

The effectiveness of search-based automated program repair is limited in the number of
correct patches that can be successfully generated. There are two causes of such limitation …

Automated program repair has shown promise for reducing the significant manual effort
debugging requires. This paper addresses a deficit of earlier evaluations of automated …

Given how the" patching treadmill" plays a central role for enabling sites to counter emergent
security concerns, it behooves the security community to understand the patch development …

Automated program repair is the problem of automatically fixing bugs in programs in order to
significantly reduce the debugging costs and improve the software quality. To address this …

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in
Defects4J comes with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In …