Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting
feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance …

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to reduce manual debugging efforts for
developers and improve software reliability. While conventional search-based techniques …

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 …

Automated generate-and-validate program repair techniques (G&V techniques) suffer from
generating many overfitted patches due to in-capabilities of test cases. Such overfitted …

Traditional automatic program repair (APR) tools rely on a test-suite as a repair specification.
But test suites even when available are not of specification quality, limiting the performance …

Bug fixing is a time-consuming and tedious task. To reduce the manual efforts in bug fixing,
researchers have presented automated approaches to software repair. Unfortunately, recent …

Automated program repair (APR) has great potential to reduce bug-fixing effort and many
approaches have been proposed in recent years. APRs are often treated as a search …

Software development life cycle is profoundly influenced by bugs; their introduction,
identification, and eventual resolution account for a significant portion of software …

Benchmarks of bugs are essential to empirically evaluate automatic program repair tools. In
this paper, we present BEARS, a project for collecting and storing bugs into an extensible …

In the past decade, research on test-suite-based automatic program repair has grown
significantly. Each year, new approaches and implementations are featured in major …