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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years.
However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing …

In recent years, automatic program repair has been a hot research topic in the software
engineering community, and many approaches have been proposed. Although these …

Several static analysis tools, such as Splint or FindBugs, have been proposed to the
software development community to help detect security vulnerabilities or bad programming …

Effective program repair techniques, which modify faulty programs to fix them with respect to
given test suites, can substantially reduce the cost of manual debugging. A common repair …