Fault-detection, localization, and repair methods are vital to software quality; but it is difficult
to evaluate their generality, applicability, and current effectiveness. Large, diverse, realistic …

Automated program repair (APR) has been gaining ground with substantial effort devoted to
the area, opening up many challenges and opportunities. One such challenge is that the …

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 …

Reproducing production failures is crucial for software reliability. Alas, existing bug
reproduction approaches are not suitable for production systems because they are not …

Software engineering studies, such as bug detection, localization, repair, and prediction,
often require benchmark bug datasets for their experiments. Few publicly available …

High-quality and large-scale repositories of real bugs and their concise patches collected
from real-world applications are critical for research in software engineering community. In …

The ability to record and replay program executions with low overhead enables many
applications, such as reverse-execution debugging, debugging of hard-to reproduce test …

We present SAVER, a new memory-error repair technique for C programs. Memory errors
such as memory leak, double-free, and use-after-free are highly prevalent and fixing them …

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

Fix pattern-based patch generation is a promising direction in automated program repair
(APR). Notably, it has been demonstrated to produce more acceptable and correct patches …